CURRENT 93 - Swastikas For Noddy (reissue) - picture disc LP in die-cut sleeve
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CURRENT 93
Swastikas For Noddy (reissue)
Cashen's Gap
picture disc LP in die-cut sleeve Cat: DOAR XVIIRel: 2 Sep 24
Folk/Americana Side 1 - Track 1. Benediction Side 1 - Track 2. Blessing Side 1 - Track 3. North Side 1 - Track 4. Black Sun Bloody Moon Side 1 - Track 5. Oh Coal Black Smith Side 1 - Track 6. Panzer Rune Side 1 - Track 7. Black Flowers, Please Side 1 - Track 8. The Final Church Side 2 - Track 1. The Summer Of Love Side 2 - Track 2. (Hey Ho) The Noddy (Oh) Side 2 - Track 3. Beausoleil Side 2 - Track 4. Scarlet Woman Side 2 - Track 5. The Stair Song Side 2 - Track 6. Angel Side 2 - Track 7. Since Yesterday Side 2 - Track 8. Valediction Side 2 - Track 9. Malediction
Yet another reissue to come out via David Tibet's current reissues occupation Cashen's Gap is the incredible eleventh Current 93 record Swastikas For Noddy. Playing up recurrent motifs of ruination and spoiling - always present in Tibet's music since early - every facet of this record seems to find an impertinent glee in juxtaposing the beautiful with the ominous, the dainty with the dearth. Perhaps it's a cursed record, as its intent spelt doom from the get-go: it first ran into copyright trouble after its title provoked the ire of writer Enid Blyton, who certainly did not appreciate the apparent Nazification of her beloved character. But over that hump came the real backstory: Tibet said, "I took a load of acid on the top of the house where Rose McDowall was living and I had a vision of Noddy crucified in the sky and it really impressed me...", which led to a crazed but short-lived Noddy consumer fanaticism on the artist's part. This record was of course born of that period of Noddy thrall; it nonetheless mystifies the gaudy children's character and toy's allure, couching it in bewitching pagan folk monodies and dastardly end-of-times industrial-hell crescendos. Perhaps when we forget Noddy, we forget the nation. Remastered by The Bricoleur at Bladud Flies!, and with the original artwork refreshed and reborn by Rob Hopeye, this 12" vinyl picture-disc comes in a full-colour die-cut sleeve, which is printed on both the outside and inside.
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