Description
Blank Arcades is the third in Andrew Rumsey’s acclaimed triptych of albums-in-a-day recorded in
historic Wiltshire churches. With Grammy award-winning sound engineer Katie May (MPG Sound
Engineer of the Year, 2025) once again at the faders, Blank Arcades sees the same team (David
Perry on guitars & church organ, Cameron Saint on double bass and Louis Spanton on percussion) reunite in atmospheric Yatesbury Church, close to the Avebury stone circle, to perform sixteen new songs on a single summer’s day.
A year on from its predecessor, Collodion (“hushed, haunted and shiver-inducing” wrote Alexis
Petridis in The Guardian) Blank Arcades draws on themes of impeded progress and the ‘entrances to
nowhere ’implied by the album title, a nod to Andrew’s interest in ancient churches.
“When you sing in a place like this, the walls join in.”
Track listing:
Side A:
Opening
Place of Dragons
Fall In Eugene
Pilot Light
O Lazarus
All Of A Piece
Fastest In The Slow Lane
Juxon Street
Side B:
Blank Arcades
ShirleyWindmill
Darleen
We Are The Sons Of Temperance
Trebarwith Strand
Chapeau
The Stations Of Your Heart
Quince Tree
GENRE: Acoustic/Singer Songwriter
BARCODE: 684910295994
RELEASE DATE: 15/05/2026
