Cloying whimsy collides with genuine psychedelic strangeness on this brainchild of two Wimbledon School Of Art graduates, William Wilding and Nanette Greenblatt. Buoyed by moonwalking bass and keyboards that caper like tipsy aliens, Greenblatt plays the batty housewife peering through net curtains and cooing, "Ooooooh look - there goes Concorde again!" Peel: " That was one of those records where you put it on and thought: This will be fantastically irritating in a fortnight, but until then let's play it to death."From the brilliant Simon Reynolds' post punk masterpiece "Rip It Up And Start Again".
Thirty years later, this still has the power to totally fuck with your mind. I remember laying in bed in my Walney Island (look it up) bedroom listening to this on Peel and thinking that it was the end of the fucking world. What do they MEAN? Why did they DO that? My tiny brain simply couldn't take it all in. How exciting, though. How fucking ALIVE!
The B side tracks "Stands, Still The Building" and "I Wanna Be Around (Paul)" are equally strange, but don't work nearly as well, having a lot less charm and lacking the startling spookiness of the A side.
Pressed up at 33rpm on their own "Heater Volume" records, this is wonderful artifact. Hand stamped labels, various inserts and a sheet of cut up musical notation with the request "IF YOU READ MUSIC, RECORD THIS AND MAIL IT TO US FOR USE ON THE NEXT HIPSTERS RELEASE." Weirdly, the address given for Heater Volume Records, is on Battersea Rise, which would be about five minutes away from my London flat. In 1980 though, Battersea seemed like some impossible, unachievable distant planet. And I wasn't sure I ever wanted to go there if the people there made THIS!
Ripped from the original 1980 vinyl with full artwork. 320 Kbps.
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