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Dark Green biovinyl LP in a gatefold sleeve

Recorded at Abbey Road last Autumn, ‘Rainy Sunday Afternoon’ is The Divine Comedy’s
thirteenth album and their first studio album since 2019’s UK Top Five ‘Office Politics’. The
band’s last release was 2022’s Best Of compilation ‘Charmed Life’ which also reached Number
Five in the UK Album Charts. The band’s Neil Hannon most recently wrote the original songs
for the Warner Bros blockbuster ‘Wonka’.
 Neil says: “My musical output is, for better or worse, a representation of my personality. A good
chunk of that personality revels in the rumbumptious; celebrates the silly. And I made ample
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 a while. It should be available on the NHS.”

Tracklisting:

Achilles
The Last Time I Saw the Old Man
The Man who Turned Into a Chair
I Want You
Rainy Sunday Afternoon
All the Pretty Lights
Down the Rabbit Hole
Mar-a-Lago by the Sea
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Can’t Let Go
Invisible Thread