Jeffrey Runnings - Piqued 2 MAGENTA VINYL LP + BONUS CLEAR SILVER 12" VINYL (Vinyl LP) PRE-ORDER

Expected Release Date: 11-July-2025 - This Pre-order will be shipped on or just before this date. Release dates are subject to alteration.

decades-long collaboration with post-punk cult favourites turned dream pop visionaries For Against, the label proudly presents Piqued, the last album from For Against chief songwriter, lead singer, bass player and only constant member Jeffrey Runnings. A posthumous release that's also a celebration of the artist's lifelong quest for a sound that, stripped to the bones, is all the more powerful and cathartic for its restraint, Piqued was recorded by Runnings at home on an old 8-track cassette machine. It plays just like a late '80s mixtape, lovingly compiled to showcase the beautiful emptiness of post-punk's more eloquently quiet peaks. The favourites of a lifetime - from Section 25 to The Comsat Angels, from Young Marble Giants to early 4AD singles - are conjured as Runnings' final songs play. Stark and deadpan on the surface, this is electric guitar music in its most human and vulnerable form. Piqued is available on vinyl (Black or Transparent Magenta), Special Edition CD and digital, and comes with a 4-track EP of rare recordings from the late '80s - two of them previously unreleased, this bonus LP on Clear Silver 12" Vinyl for the vinyl edition.

Tracklist
Batman Forever
Just Before Nothing
Threadbare
Mayfair
Bloom
The Courage of Voluntary Trees
Heretofore
Failed Rescue Attempt
Glorious Grey
Value
Elegy
Follow
Light of My Life
Watch
Demolition Blast