Rainy Sunday Afternoon Limited Edition Dark Red Vinyl – The Divine Comedy

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Description

Vinyl records London dig this New Red Vinyl Vinyl Records LP Vinyl by The Divine Comedy. Recorded at Abbey Road in the autumn of 2024, Rainy Sunday Afternoon is The Divine Comedy039s first studio album since 2019039s Office Politics. Since then, the bands Neil Hannon has been busy. He has remastered and reissued The Divine Comedys back catalogue released a new Best Of Charmed Life and contributed the original songs to global blockbuster Wonka.Rainy Sunday Afternoon, The Divine Comedys thirteenth album, sees Neil Hannon in a reflective mood, contemplating the past and the present with a hopeful nod to the future. My musical output is, for better or worse, a representation of my personality, Neil admits. A good chunk of that personality revels in the rumbumptious celebrates the silly. And I made &le use of that for the Wonka songs.I have, though, like everyone, a darker, more melancholy side. And for one reason or another it has been much in evidence of late. I needed to use this album as an outlet for those feelings. To work through some stuff. Mortality memories relationships political and social upheaval. Everyone should get to make an orchestral pop album once in awhile. It should be available on the NHS.This format of Rainy Sunday Afternoon is an 11track dark red vinyl LP in a gatefold sleeve an artworked inner sleeve with lyrics and a download card.The Divine Comedy will play a 16 date UK tour in October 2025 with EU and Irish dates to follow in 2026. All tour dates can be found at httpsthedivinecomedy.comlive

Official LP Vinyl

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Official Red Vinyl

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Red Vinyl

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