Erland & The Carnival - Closing Time Crooked Rain Crooked Rain On their second album the

On their second album the band learnt how to raise rock and roll excess into an art form

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the album tends to a sort of euphoria

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Erland & The Carnival - Closing Time Crooked Rain Crooked Rain On their second album theWhen unassuming young Orkney music maker Erland Cooper picked up his guitar and travelled the length of the country to play a show in Londons Notting Hill, little did he know that a chance encounter with musical veteran Simon Tong (The Verve, The Good The Bad & The Queen, Gorillaz) would be the start of a unique songwriting friendship. Together they formed Erland & The Carnival and now, nearly a decade later, arrives Closing Time, the bands third,