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BAND/ARTIST: Shovel Dance Collective
- Title: Everything in Readiness
- Year Of Release: 2026
- Label: tak:til
- Genre: Experimental, World Music, British Traditional Folk
- Quality: FLAC 24-Bit/44.1 kHz; 16-Bit/44.1 kHz; MP3 320 kbps
- Total Time: 00:44:48
- Total Size: 120; 282; 506 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
The nine-piece British ensemble Shovel Dance Collective formed in late 2019 and has become one of the leading forces in the revival of interest in traditional music. Its two albums, The Water is the Shovel of the Shore and The Shovel Dance, have been celebrated both within the UK folk scene and far beyond it; critics at Uncut and Pitchfork hear a living tradition rather than a museum piece. The third album, Everything in Readiness, is released on the tak:til imprint of Glitterbeat, which has recently put out records by Brìghde Chaimbeul, Alison Cotton and Cerys Hafana.
The word “collective” reflects the group’s nature: its horizontal organisation, politics and inclusiveness. Members run solo projects alongside the band and play in caroline, Gentle Stranger and Sullow. Over years of playing together they have developed their own language of improvisation and arrangement, honed on stage, and have learned to stitch together disparate material and combine different recording techniques.
As before, the album’s songs come from many sources and are often assembled as a collage — the band likens it to weaving or a patchwork quilt. They dig ever deeper into rarely performed traditional repertoire and present it so as to bring the hidden to the surface: the focus is on social and political undercurrents, expropriation, carceral systems and the lot of the working class. The record’s overarching “theme” is the process of traditional music itself, filtered through nine musicians.
Yet the music is far from dry or academic. The album opens with the jubilant “Jer the Rigger” and closes with the heartbreaking “prison medley” “A Hundred Stretches Hence / I Wish There Was No Prisons”. “The Foxhunter’s Reel” is exhilarating; “Tally Ho! Hark Away!” embraces chaos and discord, as much Evan Parker as Séamus Ennis; “Jowl, Jowl & Listen Lads” is a heavy, thudding piece about mining labour. The band calls “Who Killed Cock Robin?” the album’s “pop song” despite its morbid theme, while “Bold Captain Avery” conveys working-class utopianism through an epic pirate ballad.
Over the years the arrangements have grown bolder and more radical, and the group follows the shape of the material rather than planning a narrative in advance. The recording uses tape manipulation, field recordings and unlikely locations; the instruments are largely acoustic, and the voices are raised in defiance, sorrow or celebration. It is the collective’s strongest and most ambitious work, one that rewards deep listening.
Tracklist:
1. Shovel Dance Collective - Jer the Rigger
2. Shovel Dance Collective - The Foxhunter's Reel
3. Shovel Dance Collective - Tally Ho! Hark Away!
4. Shovel Dance Collective - Ní ar Chnoc nó ar Ísleacht ("Mists are the best times for sowing")
5. Shovel Dance Collective - Jowl, Jowl and Listen Lads
6. Shovel Dance Collective - On Rye Marshes (A Crow Replied to Bells)
7. Shovel Dance Collective - Who Killed Cock Robin? A Summoning (Kind Morning in our Fists)
8. Shovel Dance Collective - Who Killed Cock Robin? / Gilbert's Jig
9. Shovel Dance Collective - Bold Captain Avery
10. Shovel Dance Collective - The Worms Crept Out (A Leuven Carillon)
11. Shovel Dance Collective - A Hundred Stretches Hence / I Wish There Was No Prisons
The word “collective” reflects the group’s nature: its horizontal organisation, politics and inclusiveness. Members run solo projects alongside the band and play in caroline, Gentle Stranger and Sullow. Over years of playing together they have developed their own language of improvisation and arrangement, honed on stage, and have learned to stitch together disparate material and combine different recording techniques.
As before, the album’s songs come from many sources and are often assembled as a collage — the band likens it to weaving or a patchwork quilt. They dig ever deeper into rarely performed traditional repertoire and present it so as to bring the hidden to the surface: the focus is on social and political undercurrents, expropriation, carceral systems and the lot of the working class. The record’s overarching “theme” is the process of traditional music itself, filtered through nine musicians.
Yet the music is far from dry or academic. The album opens with the jubilant “Jer the Rigger” and closes with the heartbreaking “prison medley” “A Hundred Stretches Hence / I Wish There Was No Prisons”. “The Foxhunter’s Reel” is exhilarating; “Tally Ho! Hark Away!” embraces chaos and discord, as much Evan Parker as Séamus Ennis; “Jowl, Jowl & Listen Lads” is a heavy, thudding piece about mining labour. The band calls “Who Killed Cock Robin?” the album’s “pop song” despite its morbid theme, while “Bold Captain Avery” conveys working-class utopianism through an epic pirate ballad.
Over the years the arrangements have grown bolder and more radical, and the group follows the shape of the material rather than planning a narrative in advance. The recording uses tape manipulation, field recordings and unlikely locations; the instruments are largely acoustic, and the voices are raised in defiance, sorrow or celebration. It is the collective’s strongest and most ambitious work, one that rewards deep listening.
Tracklist:
1. Shovel Dance Collective - Jer the Rigger
2. Shovel Dance Collective - The Foxhunter's Reel
3. Shovel Dance Collective - Tally Ho! Hark Away!
4. Shovel Dance Collective - Ní ar Chnoc nó ar Ísleacht ("Mists are the best times for sowing")
5. Shovel Dance Collective - Jowl, Jowl and Listen Lads
6. Shovel Dance Collective - On Rye Marshes (A Crow Replied to Bells)
7. Shovel Dance Collective - Who Killed Cock Robin? A Summoning (Kind Morning in our Fists)
8. Shovel Dance Collective - Who Killed Cock Robin? / Gilbert's Jig
9. Shovel Dance Collective - Bold Captain Avery
10. Shovel Dance Collective - The Worms Crept Out (A Leuven Carillon)
11. Shovel Dance Collective - A Hundred Stretches Hence / I Wish There Was No Prisons
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