Andrew Rumsey Blank Arcades Vinyl LP Due Out 15/05/26

Andrew Rumsey - Blank Arcades

Please note this is a pre-order item due for release 15th May, 2026

Tracklist:

1. Opening
2. Place of Dragons
3. Fall In Eugene
4. Pilot Light
5. O Lazarus
6. All Of A Piece
7. Fastest In The Slow Lane
8. Juxon Street
9. Blank Arcades
10. Shirley Windmill
11. Darleen
12. We Are The Sons Of Temperance
13. Trebarwith Strand
14. Chapeau
15. The Stations Of Your Heart
16. Quince Tree

Blank Arcades is the third in Andrew Rumsey's acclaimed triptych of albums-in-a-day recorded in historic Wiltshire churches. With Grammy award-winning sound engineer Katie May (MPG Sound Engineer of the Year, 2025) once again at the faders, Blank Arcades sees the same team (David Perry on guitars & church organ, Cameron Saint on double bass and Louis Spanton on percussion) reunite in atmospheric Yatesbury Church, close to the Avebury stone circle, to perform sixteen new songs on a single summer's day.A year on from its predecessor, Collodion ("hushed, haunted and shiver-inducing" wrote Alexis Petridis in The Guardian) Blank Arcades draws on themes of impeded progress and the 'entrances to nowhere' implied by the album title, a nod to Andrew's interest in ancient churches."When you sing in a place like this, the walls join in."-----------------------------------------------"Such a lovely record... charming, rough-hewn and oaky as the pews which surround the recording. Recommended." - Mark Ellen - Word in Your Ear podcast