- Record Label: Basic Plumbing Records
- Release Date: Jan 31, 2020
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Jan 31, 2020Keeping Up Appearances is tuneful and exciting, morose and beautiful, noisy and sweet, and it should have heralded the triumphant arrival of Patrick Doyle as a solo artist. Sadly, he didn't live to see its release. The album is a fitting tribute to Doyle's music and also a tragic reminder of the great songs he will never write or play.
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Jan 31, 2020Patrick is found confronting familiar ideas of inner contentment alongside upbeat surface shine on this bittersweet work - full of charm and integrity
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UncutJan 31, 2020A real joy, though it bears an inevitable sadness. [Feb 2020, p.25]
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Jan 31, 2020Keeping Up Appearances, released under the moniker Basic Plumbing, collects the tracks Doyle and Skinner finished. Their beauty is immediate, accessible, and, at least for the moment, almost inextricable from all the loss surrounding them.