The Fiery Margin
Studio album by
Alasdair Roberts
Released13 September 2019 (2019-09-13)
Length39:04
LabelDrag City
Alasdair Roberts chronology
What News
(2018)		 The Fiery Margin
(2019)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic80/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Skinny[3]

The Fiery Margin is a studio album by Scottish musician Alasdair Roberts. It was released on 13 September 2019 by Drag City Records.[4] Monorail record shop in Glasgow released an exclusive edition featuring a bonus CD, Where the East Toucheth the West, which includes live versions of five of the album's tracks, recorded at gigs in July 2019.[5]

In October 2019, the Fiery Margin Tour was announced for Scotland and England.[6]

"The Untrue Womb" is a version of the song appearing on the 2011 charity album by The Fruit Tree Foundation.

Critical reception

The Fiery Margin was met with generally favorable reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 80, based on 5 reviews.[1]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."False Flesh"4:16
2."The Evernew Tongue"3:02
3."Europe"5:06
4."Comments"3:55
5."A Keen"2:55
6."The Stranger With the Scythe"3:33
7."Actore"3:22
8."Common Clay"4:26
9."Learning Is Eternal"4:46
10."The Untrue Womb"3:43

References

  1. 1 2 "Metacritic Review". Metacritic. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  2. ↑ Deming, Mark. "AllMusic Review". AllMusic. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  3. ↑ Bowman, Jamie (17 September 2019). "The Skinny Review". The Skinny. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  4. ↑ Shepherd, Fiona (16 September 2019). "Alasdair Roberts on mining the Middle Ages for new album The Fiery Margin". The Scotsman. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  5. ↑ "Alasdair Roberts :: The Fiery Margin Signed Copies + Bonus Live CD".
  6. ↑ "The Fiery Margin Tour". Alasdairroberts.com. 9 October 2019. Retrieved 20 April 2020.



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