Description
The new album by L.Y.R., their third commercial release, begins with the idea that the furthest points of light – stars – can only be seen in the dark. It’s a kind of contradiction that finds musical expression in these new tracks, the band always navigating towards sightings of hopefulness and constancy in an increasingly bewildering and storm-battered world.
The term dark sky reservation has its origins in environmentalism, and several tracks on the album deal with the messed-up weather of our contemporary planet, both meteorological and psychological, from s of an earth deluged by thunderstorms to the soggy back-gardens of suburbia, a climate crisis brought on by rampant urbanism. In that context, dark sky reservations are those regions of the landscape where light pollution is discouraged and even outlawed, to allow scientists and casual stargazers to peer into the cosmos and see the glory of the constellations, patterns of light that have entranced and mystified us for hundreds of thousands of years.
It’s from those designated zones that human beings get a sense of their place in the universe, and experience the wonder of the here and now against a context of eternity and infinity. An alternative to the hectic craziness of everyday life, so often virtual and synthetic, the dark sky reservation is a place of refuge and dreaming, and like L.Y.R.’s music, such spaces are earmarked for contemplation and thoughtfulness.
Available as CD and cream coloured LP.
L.Y.R. is author and current British poet laureate Simon Armitage, singer-songwriter Richard Walters and multi-instrumentalist & producer Patrick Pearson.
On tour in the UK 2026 APRIL
16 Cambridge Storey’s Field Centre
17 Kendal Brewery Arts Centre
18 Liverpool Tung Auditorium
19 Birmingham Bradshaw Hall
21 Nottingham Squire Performing Arts Centre
22 Glasgow Cottiers Theatre
23 Gateshead Glasshouse Sage 2
24 Pocklington Pocklington Arts Centre
25 Hebden Bridge Trades Club
MAY 04 Leeds City Varieties Music Hall
05 Bristol Beacon
06 London ICA
07 Brighton Komedia
08 Exeter Mount Dinham
09 Falmouth Cornish Bank at KCM Church
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