{"product_id":"martha-please-dont-take-me-back-new-lp","title":"Martha – Please Don’t Take Me Back – New LP","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003ciframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1821054479\/size=small\/bgcol=333333\/linkcol=0f91ff\/transparent=true\/\" seamless\u003eMartha \"Please Don't Take Me Back\" by Dirtnap Records\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003eTrack List:\u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e1. Beat, Perpetual\u003cbr\u003e2 Hope Gets Harder\u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e3. Please Don’t Take Me Back\u003cbr\u003e4. Irreversible Motion\u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e5. Baby, Does Your Heart Sink?\u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e6. FLAG\/\/BURNER\u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e7. Neon Lung\u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e8. Take Me Back To The Old Days (Reprise)\u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e9. Total Cancellation Of The Future\u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e10. I Didn’t Come Here To Surrender\u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e11. You Can’t Have A Good Time All Of The Time\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDurham indiepop-punks Martha return with their fourth album, and it \u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003emight just be their best one yet. With their endlessly radiant hooks \u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003edialled up to maximum setting, paired with another heart-rending and \u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003erelatable lyric sheet that reflects on the universal scars of the \u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003epandemic years, Please Don’t Take Me Back is the work of a band in the \u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eform of their life. It’s also an instant classic - one that’s both smartly prescient and warmly addictive. Recorded at Nottingham’s JT Soar by ‘Bad’ Phil Booth (The Cool Greenhouse, Rattle, Grey Hairs), Please Don’t Take Me Back is a timely \u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ecollection of deliciously catchy pop songs about ‘resisting the feeling that the good days are behind us’.  Two things set these songs apart. Firstly, the sense of resolution the band provide by working through these fears to find what positivity they can - making this the go-to record for your ongoing existential crisis in 2022. Secondly, there’s the effortless brilliance which ensures every melody cements itself to your memory from the very first \u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003elisten - album closer \"You Can’t Have A Good Time All Of The Time\" might \u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ebe their breeziest singalong moment yet, all wrapped up in a song \u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eabout the planet’s ongoing environmental catastrophe. You’ll hear \u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eechoes of The Housemartins, The Weakerthans, Cheap Trick and Heavenly \u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ein their sound, but ultimately it sounds like Martha found a way to \u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eturn their strongest features all the way to 11. What better way to \u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eprocess the aftermath of the past two years?\u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhile their previous record - 2019’s Love Keeps Kicking - saw them \u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eremaining defiant in a world that seemed to be breaking apart, Please \u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDon’t Take Me Back explores the scattered fragments of what followed \u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eand tries to make sense of how we navigate the smoking remains.\u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFirst formed in the small village of Pity Me, Durham, in 2011, Martha \u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ereleased their debut EP the following year on guitarist Jonathan \u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCairns’ DIY label, Discount Horse. Tours on both sides of the Atlantic \u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003esoon followed, along with two albums for the UK’s much-missed indiepop \u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003estable Fortuna Pop: 2014’s Courting Strong (also released in the \u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUnited States by Salinas Records) and 2016’s sophomore effort Blisters \u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn The Pit of My Heart (via Dirtnap Records in the US). In the \u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003emeantime, the band became figureheads for the UK’s DIY pop scene by \u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ebalancing their obvious talents with a clear set of ethics - \u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eanti-capitalist, first and foremost - and an open-hearted warmth \u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethat’s often absent from the foreground of punk rock.\u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePlease Don’t Take Me Back is a fine addition to Martha’s discography; \u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003etheir most life-affirming yet and a welcome ripple of light at a time \u003cbr aria-hidden=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewhen it’s often difficult to see past the darkness. 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