This Leaden Pall


This Leaden Pall is the fourth album by UK rock band Half Man Half Biscuit, released in 1993.
The album cover features a bleak overdeveloped picture of the now demolished Hale Wood pub in Halewood, Merseyside. In 2001 it was voted the 93rd best LP sleeve of all time in Q magazine.
Anecdotally, lead singer Nigel Blackwell has referred to the album as their Closer.

Critical reception

  1. "M-6-ster"
  2. "4AD3DCD"
  3. "Running Order Squabble Fest"
  4. "Whiteness Thy Name Is Meltonian"
  5. "This Leaden Pall"
  6. "Turned up Clocked on Laid Off"
  7. "Improv Workshop Mimeshow Gobshite"
  8. "13 Eurogoths Floating in the Dead Sea"
  9. "Whit Week Malarkey"
  10. "Doreen"
  11. "Quality Janitor"
  12. "Floreat Inertia"
  13. "Malayan Jelutong"
  14. "Numanoid Hang-glide"
  15. "Footprints"