Rainy Sunday Afternoon Deluxe LP Book Vinyl

This Deluxe Limited Edition of Rainy Sunday Afternoon comes as a beautiful 12 casebound photo book, containing The album on black BioVinyl in an inner sleeve with artwork and lyrics A 20 page behind the scenes look at the making of Rainy Sunday Afternoon at Abbey Road with text from Neil, the band and engineer Tom Bailey Illustrated throughout with fly on the wall photos by Kevin Westenberg and the band alongside extracts from Neils lyric notebooks The Live in Paris amp London bonus CD a collection of deep cuts and fan favourites from 2022039s celebratory careerspanning shows.Recorded at Abbey Road in the autumn of 2024, Rainy Sunday Afternoon is The Divine Comedy039s first studio album since 2019039s Office Politics. Since then, Neil Hannon has been busy He has remastered and reissued The Divine Comedys back catalogue released a new Best Of Charmed Life and contributed the original songs to global blockbuster Wonka.Rainy Sunday Afternoon, The Divine Comedys thirteenth album, sees Neil Hannon in a reflective mood, contemplating the past and the present with a hopeful nod to the future. My musical output is, for better or worse, a representation of my personality, Neil admits. 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 awhile. It should be available on the NHS.The Divine Comedy will play a 16 date UK tour in October 2025 with European and Irish dates to follow in February and March 2026. All tour dates can be found at httpsthedivinecomedy.comlive