We've noticed an interesting trend of late. Ever since the internet was convicted of murdering the music industry, what with its free mp3 downloads et al, the golden age of the vinyl seems to be on the rise again. This is good. Because we like holding the music in our hands, blowing off the dust which we cant really see, placing the needle down carefully...and then slipping and scratching the thing to shit so it skips all the time (We desperately need a new copy of 'Thriller', but prices have rocketed since MJ popped it. Gutted). They're also nice to frame and have on the wall and just continue to listen to the mp3s.
The latest label to embrace this needle required format are Hi-Scores Recording Library. We give them ten out of ten (see what we did there?) for choosing Canadian/Chicago (delete as appropriate) based outfit Wolf In A Spacesuit as their first release.
Here's the deal. Pay attention. There are 500 copies of the vinyl. If you buy the vinyl you also get to download a their 'Pink Slip' EP for free. So it's like the format of the future meeting the format of the past and having a 'new industry model' baby. And get this...the vinyl is white.
The tracks on the vinyl (colour = white), 'Bark Of A Cedar' and 'I Fee Nthg', have been released previously as part of a download EP, but to be honest it doesn't matter because, quite aside from having been rerecorded and remastered, they are fucking great.
Think Radiohead 'In Rainbows', think Girls Aloud 'Biology', think The XX (actually forget that, boring), think Air '10,000 Hz Legend'...mix all of that together and that's sort of Wolf In A Spacesuit. They play with structure, sound and melody like a cat playing with a dismembered mouse head. And we are excited to hear what this sounds like on a crackly, scratched old (did we mention it's white) vinyl.
Pre-order from Hi-Scores Recording Library
Wolf In A Spacesuit on Myspace
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