The Long Goodbye

This latest opus, the band’s twelfth studio album, was mainly recorded during the same sessions of TLGA before, during and after the recent Covid emergency, by the various band members and finally edited, mixed and mastered, as usual, by engineer/producer extraordinaire Karl Groom from Threshold.

Thus, the album line up is the same as the last one: i.e. Stu Nicholson (vocals), Dean Baker (keyboards) and Spencer Luckman (drums), Lee Abraham (guitars) and Mark Spencer (bass guitar).
The main album consists of five tracks plus two bonus tracks on the CD.

As is the case with TLGA, ‘The Long Goodbye’ has a crisp and clear contemporary sound but, musically, still includes a variety of influences including a few nods to the band’s progressive heritage particularly the epic closing title track in which the ageing process and the difficult and tricky subject of early onset dementia is tackled, hopefully with a certain degree of poignancy.

‘The Long Goodbye’ CD version will be released in October 2023.

Track listing:
Behind the Veil of a Smile (6.19)
Everything’s Changed (7.39)
Shadow in the Corner (5.28)
The Righteous and the Damned (8.37)
The Long Goodbye (12.58)

CD Bonus tracks:
Darker Days (7.45)
Open Water (4.08)