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Lining Time - Strike (2022)

Lining Time - Strike (2022)

BAND/ARTIST: Lining Time

  • Title: Strike
  • Year Of Release: 2022
  • Label: Shadow World
  • Genre: Post-Punk, Folk
  • Quality: FLAC (tracks)
  • Total Time: 56:58
  • Total Size: 345 MB
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A powerful incantation sung in full choral style at Dartington College of Arts in 1982 and captured on tape, now in 1s and 0s for all eternity. It's a bold phrase, this assertion of existence, this permanent claiming of space in time; these three words we were made to sing in church, that we used to recite one after another at the beginning of class. Doing so might seem mundane, or easy, but it's not. What's easy is not. Not declaring one's presence, not showing up at all. Claire Bushe, Cathy Frost, Lisa Halse, Cathy Josefowitz, and Mara de Wit showed up, took a side. They called themselves Lining Time. They were here.

ANY WOMAN CAN SAY I'M A WITCH, they said.

Strike is the album Lining Time made. It plays out like a freedom spell, like liberatory healing magic. Reveling in the power of the voice, Lining Time sing. Not at us, but for us. As if by putting voice to the traumas inflicted by the patriarchy and capital, they could be made right. As if the whole world might join in and sing along, might join in and take action - might join in and strike.

There's nothing exclusive about the music Lining Time made. Like many of the best and weirdest records of the post-punk era, Strike wears its amateurism as a badge of honour, flies it like a flag to rally around. It is inclusive to the extreme. Which isn't to say anyone could've made Strike. That's the thing. The music preserved here is too weirdly spare and idiosyncratic - and wildly overconfident in the way that only the young and young at heart can be. Sometimes it's almost protest folk, acappella or accompanied by a single acoustic guitar, as on 'It's Possible'. Sometimes schoolroom auxiliary percussion clunks out a cyclical, ritual rhythm, as on the title track. At no point does it feel less than singular.

Still, this is music about and for universal sisterhood. It invites solidarity. Take up an instrument for the cause and sing your own song.

1.01 - Lining Time - Here I Am (4:06)
1.02 - Lining Time - Strike (9:12)
1.03 - Lining Time - Shake It Off (5:44)
1.04 - Lining Time - No More Fear (3:50)
1.05 - Lining Time - Time (1:19)
1.06 - Lining Time - Its Possible (3:24)
1.07 - Lining Time - Et quands seront nous sage (1:20)
1.08 - Lining Time - Flashing Love (4:20)
1.09 - Lining Time - La valise (5:25)
1.10 - Lining Time - Headcase Sister (3:25)
1.11 - Lining Time - Night and Day (4:06)
1.12 - Lining Time - To Talk to You (6:07)
1.13 - Lining Time - Stay (2:12)
1.14 - Lining Time - With These Lovely Feathers (2:27)

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