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Erland and the Carnival: Nightingale – review

(Full Time HobbyRecorded in the bowels of HMS President, a first world war ship moored on the Thames, and with lyrics inspired by TS Eliot, the Egyptian Book of the Dead and Dream of the Rood (one of the oldest known poems in English), Nightingale is an album gloriously in thrall to the past. Unlike, say, Mumford & Sons, however, trio Erland and the Carnival's particular strand of musical nostalgia is augmented by playful analogue keyboard riffs (the sparkling I Wish, I Wish), off-kilter time s...

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23:59 on March 3 2011

Erland and the Carnival: Nightingale – review

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