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Release Date Friday 4th September 2026
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.
Taking its name from the 1958 Jack Kerouac novel The Dharma Bums and issued in 1992, The Boo Radley’s
second album, their first for Creation Records, was the sound of the Merseysiders increasingly finding their
feet with a selection of accomplished, effects-laden tunes by Martin Carr.
Producer Ed Buller skillfully captured both their straight up rock side and their exploratory tendencies,
while singer Sice’s vocals cut through the maelstrom, sweetly and gently grounding the songs as the guitars
swoop and dive around him. This is perhaps most notable on ‘Smile Fade Fast’, the excellent single ‘Does
This Hurt?’ and the shimmering opening number, ‘Spaniard’, which gains additional atmosphere from guest
performer Roddy Lorimer on trumpet.
Something of a shoegaze classic, Everything’s Alright Forever remains a strangely slept-on record, but it did
make waves well beyond the UK and was nicely summed-up by Canada’s Calgary Herald, whose review
observed that: "buried beneath several coats of mind-gliding guitar are some of the catchiest pop songs
this side of Teenage Fanclub."
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