Keep the Village Alive Tracklist
Keep the Village Alive is the ninth studio album by Welsh rock band Stereophonics. It reached #1 in the UK album charts – their first album to do so since Pull the Pin in 2007.
The album was penned as a sequel to 2013’s Graffiti on the Train, being made up of songs left over from the aforementioned album’s writing and recording sessions. It wasn’t as well-received by critics as its predecessor, but it still gained mostly positive reviews.
Speaking of the origins of the album’s title, Jones said:
We scavenged in the gravel to find this title. It was a phrase I heard when I was a kid which kind of means, you know, “keep the spirit up, work hard, play hard.” I guess a lot of the smaller towns across the world have been in a little trouble. The work is being moved away, the pubs are being closed down, the communities are changing so I guess it’s just a nod to those people.
