Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate - The Light Of Ancient Mistakes (CD)
The Light Of Ancient Mistakes is the 7th album by Hats Off Gentlemen It's Adequate.
The centerpiece of the album is Walking To Aldebaran, inspired by the science fiction novella of the same name by Adrian Tchaikovsky. The tracks Avrana Kern Is Made Of Ants, The Requisitioner and the Wonder and Gothi and Gethli are references to a character, two spaceships and a pair of crow-like creatures which insistently deny they are sentient in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time series.
Science fiction author Iain M Banks’ novel Look To Windward is the inspiration of the title track. The track The Man Who Japed is named after the Philip K Dick novel.
The childhood experiences of David Cornwell, who wrote as John le Carré are the inspiration behind Sixteen Hugless Years.
The Glamour Boys was inspired by Labour MP Chris Byrant’s book of the same name about the experiences of a group of mostly homosexual or bisexual Conservative MPs who argued against appeasement, despite the threats from Chamberlain’s government to expose their secrets. Many went on to risk, and in some cases lose their lives in the Second World War.
The album also features The Anxiety Machine, a three-part instrumental interspersed within the album, Goodbye Cassini, a flute led tribute to the space probe, and imtiredandeverythinghurts, which is about Malcolm’s experiences with invisible disability due to Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, and the difficulty knowing how to respond to the well-intentioned question ‘how are you’?
The album ends with the climate change inspired Burn The World.
Have a look and a listen:
https://youtu.be/BWqH2cZb-QQ?list=OLAK5uy_ka1LGT1PPmK64c2qhQWKSxWyVn2Xr_rcU
https://youtu.be/c7Ep6N8wbGs?list=OLAK5uy_ka1LGT1PPmK64c2qhQWKSxWyVn2Xr_rcU
https://youtu.be/k178QbZuzlU?list=OLAK5uy_ka1LGT1PPmK64c2qhQWKSxWyVn2Xr_rcU
Tracks:
- 1. Sold The Peace
- 2. The Light Of Ancient Mistakes
- 3. Avrana Kern Is Made Of Ants
- 4. The Anxiety Machine Part 1
- 5. Sixteen Hugless Years
- 6. The Requisitioner And The Wonder
- 7. The Glamour Boys
- 8. Gothi And Gethli
- 9. Imtiredandeverythinghurts
- 10. The Anxiety Machine Part 2
- 11. Walking To Aldebaran
- 12. Goodbye Cassini
- 13. The Anxiety Machine Part 3
- 14. The Man Who Japed
- 15. Burn The World
Format: CD
Artist: Hats Off Gentlemen It’s Adequate
Release Date: September 9, 2023