This Leaden Pall
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This Leaden Pall is the fourth album by the English rock band Half Man Half Biscuit, released in 1993.
The album cover features a bleak overdeveloped picture of the now demolished Hale Wood pub in Halewood, Merseyside. In 2001 it was voted the 93rd best LP sleeve of all time in Q magazine.[1]
Anecdotally, lead singer Nigel Blackwell has referred to the album as their Closer.
Critical reception
- Stewart Mason, AllMusic: "Following the somewhat shaky McIntyre, Treadmore & Davitt, This Leaden Pall is a much more self-assured transition into the new era of Half Man Half Biscuit."[2]
- Johnny Cigarettes, NME: "Nigel Crossley [sic]'s reputation as the only rival to Vic Reeves in making cultural ephemera unfeasibly funny remains untarnished."[3]
- Andrew Harrison, Select: "[I]n '93 the Half Men remain gloriously morose and cruelly observant."[4]
Track listing
- "M-6-ster"
- "4AD3DCD"
- "Running Order Squabble Fest"
- "Whiteness Thy Name Is Meltonian"
- "This Leaden Pall"
- "Turned up Clocked on Laid Off"
- "Improv Workshop Mimeshow Gobshite"
- "13 Eurogoths Floating in the Dead Sea"
- "Whit Week Malarkey"
- "Doreen"
- "Quality Janitor"
- "Floreat Inertia"
- "Malayan Jelutong"
- "Numanoid Hang-glide"
- "Footprints"
References
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