Barrack Room Ballads
by Benedict Edwards
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Mandalay
05:02
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A Smugglers Song
04:18
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Gentleman Rankers
06:07
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Follow Me Home
02:47
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Loot
05:23
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Shilling A Day
01:57
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For To Admire
07:09
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about
A melancholy collection of songs about smuggling, soldiering, love, loss, and death, with lyrics taken from Rudyard Kipling's 1892 work, Barrack Room Ballads. Kipling sometimes paints an uncomfortably rosy view of empire, but he also shows tenderness, vision, and poignancy.
For the first month of release all profits go Combat Stress, the charity which helps veterans suffering from mental health issues.
For the first month of release all profits go Combat Stress, the charity which helps veterans suffering from mental health issues.
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released November 11, 2016
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Benedict Edwards London, UK
London-based musician into gin, tattoos, and melancholia.
Ex-Miocene frontman.
All my friends are metalheads.
discography
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Nov 2016 -
Apr 2014 -
May 2012
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