Everything seems asleep, and yet going all the time. In the cold damp earth below, Mole, Ratty and Badger are working away on new homes for Mole's uninvited guests. But Ratty picks up on terrible whispers from the Wild Wood Inn. Developers are making plans in the field above...and the landlords are up to no good...

"Essential listening FFO Time Is Away, Jon Collin or the 'Bagpuss' soundtrack, The Sprigs, confront cutesy British folk nostalgia on 'For Red Riverbank', using 'The Wind in the Willows' references, sobering newsreel snippets and straight-to-tape acoustic jams to develop a faded image of labour inequality." 

Track 3 includes music by Morgellons
Track 1 samples 'Stand up for Judas' by Leon Rosselson
Track 7 samples 'Aliezer Coppe' by Leon Rosselson
Words and voice on Track 6 by Ash Reid
Some guitar and recorders on Track 1 by Gwena Harman

Recorded, mixed and produced by The Sprigs
Additional recoding and production by Lou Pennington
Mastered by James Dunn
Cut by Mischa van der Heiden

Artwork by Ben Victor Waggett
Layout by The Sprigs
LP's screen printed by Oscar Reynolds
Pressed by Press On in Middlesbrough
Some track titles taken from the following books - 'Wind in the Willows', 'The Pub and The People' and 'Where are the Elephants?'

Inspired by Kenneth Grahame's 'Wind in the Willows'

The Sprigs is: Rory S, Ben M and V.W

The Sprigs

The Sprigs is Rory Salter, Ben Murphy & Ben Waggett. Their new album 'For Red Riverbank' is available from Bison Records

'Armed with guitars, pipes, samples and bric-a-brac, it’d be easy for the Sprigs to succumb to a totally romanticised nostalgia for an imagined British folkloric tradition. There’s enough of it going around. Instead, the gang create a ramshackle, ruddy faced blend of introspective hibernation, real-world anxiety and some absolutely knee slapping, joy inducing tunes.'