All Creatures Will Make Merry

All Creatures Will Make Merry
Studio album by Meursault
Released April 2010
(hand-printed edition)
24 May 2010 (general release)
Recorded Dec 09-Jan 10, Stockbridge, Edinburgh
Genre Folktronica, indie folk
Label Song, by Toad Records
Meursault chronology
Pissing On Bonfires / Kissing With Tongues
(2008)
All Creatures Will Make Merry
(2010)
Something for the Weakened
(2012)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
BBCfavourable[1]
Beardedfavourable[2]
Clash[3]
Drowned In Sound[4]
The Line Of Best Fitfavourable[5]
The List[6]
Mojo
Pitchfork Media(7.9/10)[7]
The Skinny[8]

All Creatures Will Make Merry is the second studio album by Scottish indie folk band Meursault, released on 24 May 2010. A limited edition, hand-printed version of the album was released in April 2010. Songwriter, vocalist and guitarist Neil Pennycook states that "the main theme of the record is one of contentment – what people are willing to do to obtain it, hold on to it, and what we stand to lose or gain if we try."[9]

Background and recording

Following the critical acclaim of the band's debut album, Pissing On Bonfires / Kissing With Tongues, a newly extended version of Meursault recorded All Creatures Will Make Merry in the winter of 2009, in Stockbridge, Edinburgh. Songwriter, vocalist and guitarist Neil Pennycook states that "playing with a full live band helped shape this record considerably," and praised the contributions of both Phillip Quirie and Pete Harvey: "[they] opened up a huge range of possibilities with these songs."[10]

Pennycook states that his production was influenced by The Microphones and Mount Eerie.[10]

Content

According to songwriter Neil Pennycook, "the themes and motivation behind All Creatures Will Make Merry come from completely different place than those on Pissing on Bonfires/Kissing With Tongues. I feel a certain duty to myself in terms of my own expectations for this album, other than that I couldn't imagine making an album to someone else's supposed criteria, that is my idea of hell."[11]

Track listing

All songs written by Neil Pennycook, performed by Meursault.

No. Title Length
1. "Payday"   1:00
2. "Crank Resolutions"   4:44
3. "All Creatures Will Make Merry… Under Pain of Death"   3:50
4. "Weather"   4:22
5. "One Day This'll All Be Fields"   3:29
6. "What You Don't Have"   5:16
7. "Another"   4:42
8. "New Ruin"   4:30
9. "Sleet"   4:50
10. "Song for Martin Kippenberger"   6:51
11. "A Fair Exchange"   1:52

Personnel

Meursault perform to a capacity audience at Cabaret Voltaire in Edinburgh for the launch of All Creatures Will Make Merry

Meursault

Production and design

References

External links

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