This Leaden Pall

This Leaden Pall is the fourth album by the English 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

 * Stewart Mason, AllMusic: "Following the somewhat shaky McIntyre, Treadmore & Davitt, This Leaden Pall is a much more self-assured transition into the new era of Half Man Half Biscuit."
 * Johnny Cigarettes, NME: "Nigel Crossley [sic]'s reputation as the only rival to Vic Reeves in making cultural ephemera unfeasibly funny remains untarnished."
 * Andrew Harrison, Select: "[I]n '93 the Half Men remain gloriously morose and cruelly observant."

Track listing

 * 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"