For Those I Love - Carving The StoneThe second album from Dublins For Those I Love, Carving the Stone is a stark and stirring portrait of modern Irish life. Expanding the intimate world of his acclaimed debut, David Balfe turns his lens outward grappling with the pressures of working class survival, the erosion of home, and the passage of time. Set to soaring instrumentals and raw spoken word, this is his most direct, urgent work to date: a deeply human collection of songs rooted in

with room for both unvarnished honesty and rose-tinted melancholy

Recorded 16th September 1973 at The Whisky A Go-Go

is that the hardest pills to swallow

favourites and tracks previously unavailable on vinyl to include on a 7” with each album

This record marked the realization of their signature sound

this incredible set never saw commercial release until now

this was a collaboration between one of the most successful (UK) female stars of the ‘60s and indie darlings the Smiths

Artwork by George Salisbury

because that past has been erased

Following the SOLD OUT white vinyl variant released for Record Store Day in 2020 (itself going for £50+) Decca now present a standard black vinyl reissue of this lost classic

Primary Colours

via the shadowy rider in Elvis Presley’s ‘Black Star’