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The scale of the ambition Johnny Parry brings to his new album is immediately apparent from the name change. No longer alone, he is now fronting the Johnny Parry Chamber Orchestra, a 30-piece band capable of transforming his sound into something altogether more powerful. The result is a sprawling album, replete with shimmering horns and lush strings as he stakes his claim to be the UK's very own Sufjan Stevens.

But don't expect to be dancing along to anthems about Illinois here. Parry uses his new musical weapons to paint an altogether more downbeat picture, an album packed with haunted and haunting characters – those already dead or barely hanging on. This can weigh heavy at times – where the album is introduced by the relatively upbeat lead single 'Keep Kicking And Screaming' and the brief 'Lie In A Hole', the morbid, brooding 'Rebuild It Piece By Piece' then clocks in at a full seven minutes, seventeen seconds, and casts a heavy shadow. 

Genre: Alternative, Indie, Folk

1. Keep kicking & Screaming
2. Lie in a Hole
3. Rebuild it Piece by Piece
4. Little Prayer No.14
5. Men Will Hang Again
6. Lucy Isabella & I
7. God Still Loves Me
8. Love & Death Will Hunt You Down
9. Love & Death
10. More Fields & Birds & Things
11. Find Your Way Home