Mending Wall by Chalk Circle

Mending Wall, Chalk Circle's first album, came out on Duke Street Records in 1987, the Canadian band's first full-length after The Great Lake. The group had started back in 1982 in Newcastle, Ontario, with singer and guitarist Chris Tait, bassist Brad Hopkins, keyboardist Tad Winklarz and drummer Derrick Murphy, and here Tait's earnest voice rides chiming guitars and moody keyboards in brooding, jangly alternative rock.

"This Mourning" is the song that has lingered on the countdowns. They took the album on the road with Crowded House, and it moved more than 50,000 copies before 1987 was out. A later reissue tacked on their cover of T. Rex's "20th Century Boy", which went out as a single.

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