(Pop-Rock) Deacon Blue - A New House - 2014, MP3, 320 kbps

After a break of two years, Deacon Blue are back with their eighth studio album A New House, through Rhino Records.
The follow-up to the Top 20 album The Hipsters, is full of confidence, courage and rekindled passion for this new lease of life that Deacon Blue have.
Far from harking back to past glories, the album is a collection of depth and passion.
The melodic and rhythmic energy of A New House comes together on the lead single and title track, one of many with thoughtful lyrics on the album.
“I remember driving out when we were kids to see a new house being built in the suburbs,” singer Ricky Ross says. “It was as if they were trying to contain the countryside, building roads and houses on it. But you can never quite contain it.”
Musically A New House is as polished as ever, although for a band who once seemed to course with the euphoric lifeblood of the working class Scots character, a symphonic sweep which puts the listener in mind of Elbow and a buoyant folk-rock reminiscent of latter-day Dylan feel slightly second-hand. Yet its heart is unmistakably Deacon Blue, and their many long-time admirers will love it.
A New House has been produced by Paul Savage (Franz Ferdinand, Teenage Fanclub, King Cresote).