Holy Smoke (2021)

Beggars Arkive announce vinyl reissues for all five Peter Murphy solo releases on Beggars Banquet, plus the release of a brand-new rarities album titled ‘The Last And Only Star’. Each album is pressed on coloured vinyl. The albums will be released in three batches of two. 

The fourth Peter Murphy album, Holy Smoke, contained the single ‘The Sweetest Drop’, which made it onto the modern rock charts. It was an elegant follow up to ‘Deep’ with crisp production by Mike Thorne. As written in the original press release for the album, “You can’t pin down ‘Holy Smoke’, it curls and eddies in white and blue swirls, drawing a series of patterns on the brain, but just when an image begins to come into focus, the music mutates into something hypnotically new.” Pressed on smoky vinyl

Released: May 2021
Cat: BBL123LPX
Label: Beggars Arkive