After “creating magical worlds with an exhilarating jumble of Serio Leone, sea shanty and Mersey melody” (Mojo Magazine) with their debut album ‘Spring Tide’, Liverpool’s The Shipbuilders return with their second album, ‘This Blue Earth’.

Whilst staying rooted to their unique brand of "Spaghetti Western with a Liverpool jangle and surf-noir-shanty" (Chris Hawkins, 6Music), the band have expanded their sound, making room for even more influences and sensibilities, pushing their sound further into previously unchartered waters. Expanding to a five-piece with the addition of a permanent brass player, ‘This Blue Earth’ is the band, again working with producer Danny Woodward (BC Camplight, Ladytron), stretching all aspects of their sound to its outer reaches, leading to, in one album, an entire world that bears repeated exploration.

As ever, the band’s sound remains hard to pinpoint, but all human life is in here. Whether it is wild storytelling set to urgent drumbeats and sparkling guitars (95 Miles, Hills of Mexico), raucous, chaotic haunted clatters (Daydreaming, Flagpole, The River) or wondrous blue eyed melodies (Polynesia), nestled next to expansive, soaring soundscapes (On the Run, La Dolce Vita) and Merseysippi Gospel hollers (Heavy is the Weight), the album is one full of twists and turns that grabs you by the lapels from the start and does not let go.
 
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