The Last King: Vinyl LP Another Michael ‘Doggerel’ is a mature yet

‘Doggerel’ is a mature yet visceral record of gruesome folk

Mellow Gold

Hansi Kürsch (vocals)

and THE MARS VOLTA guitarist OMAR RODRÍGUEZ-LÓPEZ

The Last King: Vinyl LP Another Michael ‘Doggerel’ is a mature yetThe Last King is the new album from Pat Dam Smyth, his first for Belfast institution Quiet Arch Records (Ciaran Lavery, Joshua Burnside). Along its mesmerising way, it takes in the Northern Ireland of the Troubles which formed a backdrop to Pats formative years; the angel on the sleeve of Nirvanas In Utero; a psychotic episode in Berlin and The Last King himself. Pat recorded The Last King in Ireland and London over a period of two years, and when Bad