Triple LP.

Volume 1: released on Song, by Toad Records (UK) -
songbytoadrecords.bandcamp.com/album/crippling-lack (all three volumes available)

1. Crippling Lack Pt. 1
2. Beast
3. Words Of Art (feat. Aidan Moffat)
4. Silent Arrow
5. Dots

Volume 2: released on Le Noize Maker Records (FR) -
noizemaker.bandcamp.com/album/crippling-lack (all three volumes available)

6. River (feat. Sam Amidon (fiddle))
7. Concrete Statement
8. I Close My Eyes

Volume 3: released on Paper Garden Records (US) - www.papergardenrecords.com/shop/david-thomas-broughton-crippling-lack-vinyl-3-lp (all three volumes available)

9. Crippling Lack Pt. 2
10. Gulf (feat. Jordan Geiger)
11. Beast Without You (feat. Beth Orton)
12. Plunge Of The Dagger (feat. Luke Drozd (voice), Rachael Dadd (clarinet), Ichi (steel drum))

The Crippling Lack project developed over three years with producer Raphaëlle Duquesnoy (Le Noize Maker), after successfully working together for a number of live shows in Lille (see Lille Live Album). The project was a feat of communication, while David was living in Pyongyang, North Korea.

Basic tracks captured in single takes, mid-tour in 2012. It was through email exchanges that developments to the tracks unfolded. Raphaelle brought in accomplished French musicians to add percussion and cello, mixes went back and forth for review, comment and addition.

David, as well as putting in his own parts from a distance, enlisted friends to contribute. Aidan Moffat, Jordan Geiger, Beth Orton, Sam Amidon, Luke Drozd, Rachael Dadd and Ichi, his brother Daniel, and piano parts played by Minjeong, a fellow resident of the expat compound in North Korea.