join hands join hands second studio album english post punk band released september record label release hailed british press including sounds nme join hands took topic world war inspiration musically darker band debut album scream sounds haunting album band recorded line guitarist drummer quit group disagreement beginning british join hands tour day album release record peaked albums_chart playground twist sole single released album vinyl artwork band presented history content music join hands written period months band watched news reports iran including scenes repression times seen images people shot killed television england political situation unstable rubbish streets london saw real time flocks uncertain underneath stuff past left rotting needed acknowledged cleaned swept away rotting band inspired events theme war emerged songs pro military message lyrics meant capture spirit things like time stated join hands took rock topic world war inspiration album references represented idea loss flesh blood themes songs included child like terror attacks social spiritual conditioning kinds death torture loneliness songs families nursing critic lyrical options left completely open album opens sound bells beginning poppy day words based poem flanders fields written loss friend battle world war poppy day short track long introduction building journalist called guitar shaped observed televised minutes silence memory war dead sunday november wanted write song fill gap stated inner sleeve album mention minutes silence added lyrics song zone featuring saxophone covers subject war conflict iran effect addresses use medicine icon displays echoes destruction paintings featuring religious images statues symbols old authoritarian regimes premature burial ostensibly inspired short story track album title taken words expression society people limitations writer line sisters brothers looked like summer love song conclusion features sounds like formal choir backing retreating magnificent defeat beginning second playground twist mass guitars church bells includes nursery rhyme section song talks adults act like children children think adults explained cruelty children aspect thrown playground winter left fend sort thing supposed write pop songs band single year probably best according music historian single sound catchy entered later recalled head telling expected commercial failure mother interpretation german song words called raw wound song offered life surely shared picked hears music box voices sing simultaneous love hatred mother positive lyric negative background final track album studio recording lord prayer song famously played debut live performance club punk festival september recorded session week version lord prayer entering studio band recorded session early april premiered tracks effect playground twist zone poppy day band went london record album june mixed join hands different scream darker experimental new mood guitar playing generates barrage sound bass carries tune recording took place strained atmosphere withdrew rest band manager producer album unlike sessions scream music recorded added vocals later morris mixing sessions heavily involved commenting days album release wrote music songs delivered intensity inner violence locked room remarked join hands retrospect ironic title record split group album reflected band felt time lonely isolated comes music stated added musically join hands album sounds modern today cover artwork release tour initially group wanted release album cover edited image card showing children joining hands image times distorted art direction college friend morris manager unable determine owned copyright advised band sued result nervous copyright infringement artwork pulled minute record company executives disliked religious nature tour scheduled coincide release album possibility delaying release suggested alternative cover instructed art department design artwork statues photo session band recently monument commemorates war dead great war soldier statues cut shot band found sleeve solution drawn imagery words flanders fields inspired poppy day album poppy reproduced album cover symbol remembrance day designer said layout devised help add colour create graphic device sleeve planned soldiers card band received time morris blamed refused extra expense minute succeeded pushing cover wanted white supposed black supposed blackmail lettering nice classic stated drawings band inner spread original design survived join hands issued september record label reached albums_chart time breach morris rest group important warm ireland caused problems forcing play effects gear turned finally disagreement record shop decision sell test pressing copies band received free album fans shop run run stock morris abruptly left band day album release hours concert spur moment decision returned later remarked band happened don think remastered edition included bonus tracks non album single love void previously unreleased instrumental infantry album time designed sleeve reissued vinyl record store day april edition original collection tracks infantry album closer initially intended critical reception release album received reviewers sounds gave join hands grade reviewer noting change sound mix different album clarity frames sue voice like thing treasure wrote songs voice double tracked devastating effect reviewer described track poppy day short powerful great war flanders wrote effect stunning guitar intro chasing clinical lyrics covering operation icon savage wrote brilliantly guitar perfect foil soaring emotional vocal savage noted songs rise fall stunning similarly wrote nme songs addictive mini dramas record mirror reviewer hailed record saying poppy day establishes band perfect employ sets tone tracks mother compared soundtrack film noting track features musical box echoes menacing guitar providing vocals best concluded truly disturbing dangerous work heard retrospective review published wrote nme absorbing haunting band debut album rated said version lord prayer place allmusic considered icon best track album commenting survives beginning open faster main section fuller vocal sound guitar work panned rest describing uniformly grim dragging bleak lyrics long wandering free form structures static harmony thick arrangements legacy join hands considered post punk album listed allmusic according seen precursor gothic rock genre songs atmosphere inspired host gothic according mojo matched run singles allmusic commented join hands selections appear strongly work second album closer especially effect guitar sound clear inspiration manchester band song colony film control sleeve shown scene wife wrote screenplay looks husband record collection join hands later critically acclaimed musicians leader expressed appreciation album stating records bought fall nick records favourite things heard said late chose track mother interviewed said big admirer second albums bands including track listing lyrics written noted music composed noted personnel vocals piano bass guitar guitar saxophone drums percussion technical mike production engineering production engineering assistance connor sleeve design sleeve photography sleeve illustration
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