The Barbarians Move In
Recorded June/July 2007 on the East Coast of England.
Recorded, mixed & produced by Duels.
Performed by Jon Fougler, Jim Foulger, Jon Maher, James Kenosha, Katherine Botterill, Lesley Turner & Maria Pattusch.
Mastered by John Davis at Alchemy, Soho.
Released 28th April 2008 on This Is Fake DIY Records. PURCHASE HERE
Read the Studio blog written during the recording of the album.
1. The Furies
2. Sleeping Giants
3. Regeneration
4. Perimeter Fence
5. The Healing
6. Wolvesland
7. The Wild Hunt
8. This Year’s Man
9. Forgotten Babies
10. The First Time/The Last Time
11. The Barbarians Move In
Q - “…laudably sophisticated, laudably widescreen, Q Recommends - ****”
Artrocker - “The album for armies to listen to before they go to war”
NME - “unequivocal brilliance…best comeback of 2008 so far - 8/10″
The Guardian - “an Orwellian opus that bucks prevailing trends. One of Britain’s most ambitious groups - ****”
Clash Magazine - “the kind of record they always threatened to make…a darkening canvas of the band’s immense progression”
Leeds Music Scene - “9/10″
The Sun - “enthralling”
Teletext - “a very English air of foreboding - 8/10″
Whisperin & Hollerin - “outstanding in range, inventiveness and emotional strength - 9/10″
Clickmusic - “dark, dramatic and sinister, but that brooding combination might just switch a light on in your head - ****”
Sound Of Violence - “9/10″
Vibrations - “it would be difficult to overstate quite how good this record is”
Rocksound - “grimly fiendish”
Subba-Cultcha - “something that will terrify us at first yet will fall in love with too - *****”
New Noise.net - “a quite beautiful record…..dark and disarming”
StrangeGlue.com - “a unique force in the British music scene - 9/10″
Duels on Twitter
- Chapter 2 http://starturl.com/pdqwn
- Back and rested. Thanks to all who watched us in a sweaty room in Leeds or in a beautiful square in Basle. Good times.
- God is a concept by which we measure our bread #frenchversions
- Gonna have no problem sleeping beneath painting of Coco. Honest. http://twitpic.com/1vkxq0
- RT @diyrecords: some suitably strange photos of @duelsmusic playing in leeds last night: http://is.gd/cIqJa