Lush Spooky 4AD UK 1992 10” 2 x Gatefold LP Limited Edition Shoegaze EX/EX
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Lush Spooky 4AD UK 1992 10” 2 x Gatefold LP Limited Edition Shoegaze EX/VGC+. Condition is "Used".
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I have graded the vinyl, sleeve and inner sleeve as excellent.
I've cleaned and play-tested the album and it plays perfectly and still sounds awesome!!
PLEASE SEE PHOTOS AS PART OF DESCRIPTION
I'm selling a lot of my vinyl and CD collection, because the kids are getting bigger and the house is getting smaller! Basically, it was either the kids or the records, sadly the coin came down tails...Thanks for looking!
ONLINE REVIEW:
Whoever coined the term "shoegaze" was a perceptive fellow. Whatever causes the phenomenon - be it instinct, self consciousness, reverence, fashion - audiences everywhere, in unison, lower their heads and coolly bob their necks to the sounds of the effect-drenched guitars and nearly-danceable rhythms that shoegaze music offers. The initial inception of shoegaze hit a high water mark around 1991 and has since enmeshed itself into folk and electronica.
Lush, like their English contemporaries Ride and My Bloody Valentine, had shown a proclivity toward shoegaze in the late 1980s with the recording of several promising singles and EPs. All seemed in place therefore for Lush’s full length debut, Spooky. In considering its assets, Spooky is a well-crafted record filled with wonderful vocal harmonies, haunting minor-key progressions, and apt musicianship on all fronts. Why then do you detect some restraint from this reviewer? Because it shouldn’t have been a shoegaze record.
Produced by Robin Guthrie, who represents one half of the Cocteau Twins’ chromosomes, Spooky is laden with vocal and guitar effects that sparkle and drive the way that shoegaze music should (and just like the Cocteau Twins did).
Spooky is a testament to the band, because there’s so much to celebrate. "Nothing Natural," the record’s lead single, is realized through a sonic combat between a bouncing bass line and ascending harmonies. "Superblast!" rocks like a space-age Bowie might have, had My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless been released in 1970 to aid him in his flight. A beautifully crafted tale of an unrealized romantic relationship ("Monochrome") ends the record in sweet fashion. Then there are also songs that are brilliant enough to gleam through all of the effects ("Tiny Smiles" and "For Love").
Prior to the band’s break-up in 1998, Lush released Split and Lovelife, two records that better illuminate Lush’s talents for song writing and don't indulge quite so much in the effects laden sound they were renown for here.
1. Stray
2. Nothing Natural
3. Tiny Smiles
4. Covert
5. Ocean
6. For Love
7. Superblast!
8. Untogether
9. Fantasy
10. Take
11. Laura
12. Monochrome
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