Effectively a five track album broken up into parts for easier digestion.
The title track is 29:14 long, split into eight sections.

'Laughing Stock' is the first album to incorporate ambient textures and different production techniques whilst maintaining the progressive bedrock of past albums.


Re-Release Notes: November 2017

‘Laughing Stock’ is quite possibly the most enduring record in my catalogue.

Originally released in March 2015, this album has already had a decent run as an underground release and is now ready to be released to a wider audience.

This edition is a re-issue, adding some extra parts originally edited out and a previously unreleased track as a bonus.
Completing this new re-issue is a total re-mix and re-master from the original multi-tracks.

Running order is as follows:
Nine Lives (Re-mixed)
Mirage (Original segue section removed – Re-mixed)
The King And The Serpent (Original ending restored – Track extended – Re-mixed)
Circles On The Water (Opening sound effects removed – Re-mixed)
Laughing Stock: i. Through The Third Door (Re-mixed)
Laughing Stock: ii. Inside Out/Outside In/False Start (Extended to include previously unreleased interlude part ‘False Start’ – Re-mixed)
Laughing Stock: iii. Marbles (Part 1) (Re-mixed)
Laughing Stock: iv. Whites Of Your Eyes (Original ending restored – Track extended – Re-mixed)
Laughing Stock: v. Marbles (Part 2) (Re-mixed)
Laughing Stock: vi. Too Much Rope (Original fade out restored – Re-mixed)
Laughing Stock: vii. The Escapologist (Re-mixed)
Laughing Stock: viii. After The Storm (Re-mixed)

Delta (Bonus Track - Previously unreleased)

This re-issue completes the entire Laughing Stock project.

Some of the original sound effects have been removed purely for aesthetic reasons. The tracks on the original album segued into each other and over the last couple of years; those effects have irritated me somewhat as they were mixed way too high and made the album sound a little clunky.
I’ve kept the ones that matter and simply stripped out the ones that didn’t add anything to the overall feel.

Musically, the tracks are all as is with some tracks gaining extra music originally edited out to try to keep the running time of the album less than 45 minutes.
These original endings are faithfully restored and I think the album now sounds totally complete.