A Friday evening bonanza from The Mummers over at Teh Graun: first LP Tale to Tell is being given away for free by the band and the paper over at the Guardian’s music blog. The giveaway is in advance of the group’s newest EP Mink Hollow Road on Monday 24th.

As well as the free record, Mummers singer Raissa Khan-Panni talks about the band’s recent history and the tragic loss of musical partner Mark Horwood.

“After Mark died, I started writing lots of personal, direct lyrics, and I was tempted to go in that really personal direction,” she says. “The music could have turned out edgy and dark.” Instead, she wrote songs that were, if anything, even more ornate and escapist than before. “I just thought … ‘No, this isn’t me, it’s too self-indulgent, that’s not the Mummers.’ And also, I felt that that would in some way be capitalising on what happened. So I went the other way and began almost romanticising how things should have worked out. I wanted to make it better.”

The Guardian: The Mummers: ‘We’re honouring his spirit completely’ (Paul Lester)

Tale to Tell will be free to download from teh graun and Soundcloud until Sunday 23rd January.