UPC: 790168572210
Format: LP
Release Date: Mar 17, 2009
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Swell Maps: Nikki Sudden (vocals, guitar); David Barrington, Richard Earl (guitar, bass, background vocals); John Cockrill (guitar, background vocals); Jowe Head (violin, bass, background vocals); Epic Soundtracks (piano, drums, background vocals).
Principally recorded at Spaceward Studios, Cambridge, Massachusetts in September 1977. Includes liner notes by Paul Morley and Dave McCullough.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
You'll have to be a pretty major Swell Maps fan to make heads or tails, at a glance, out of which songs on this 19-track compilation you may already have. It's all over the Swell map, including four songs that have never been on CD [including "Dresden Style (City Boys)," which was on a single]; three that have never been released anywhere; three "unreleased mixes"; and a few songs that appeared on U.K. singles ("Let's Build a Car," "Real Shocks," "Read About Seymour"). It doesn't really succeed as either a representative overview compilation or a rarities disc. Approached on its own terms -- which you might want to do if this happens to be the first, or only, Swell Maps album you get -- it's decent arty punk that's too monochromatic to sustain burning interest over the course of the lengthy program. It does have a heartier sense of joie de vivre than much U.K. punk/new wave of the period, particularly in the vocals. ~ Richie Unterberger
Principally recorded at Spaceward Studios, Cambridge, Massachusetts in September 1977. Includes liner notes by Paul Morley and Dave McCullough.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
You'll have to be a pretty major Swell Maps fan to make heads or tails, at a glance, out of which songs on this 19-track compilation you may already have. It's all over the Swell map, including four songs that have never been on CD [including "Dresden Style (City Boys)," which was on a single]; three that have never been released anywhere; three "unreleased mixes"; and a few songs that appeared on U.K. singles ("Let's Build a Car," "Real Shocks," "Read About Seymour"). It doesn't really succeed as either a representative overview compilation or a rarities disc. Approached on its own terms -- which you might want to do if this happens to be the first, or only, Swell Maps album you get -- it's decent arty punk that's too monochromatic to sustain burning interest over the course of the lengthy program. It does have a heartier sense of joie de vivre than much U.K. punk/new wave of the period, particularly in the vocals. ~ Richie Unterberger