The Spill Magazine News: Aztec Cameras High Land, Hard Rain 30th Anniversary Editonbeing releaseed on Feb 4th By Domino Records Domino will be releasing of the 30th anniversary edition of Aztec Cameras classic debut album, High Land, Hard Rain in North America on February 4th. With the original album remastered from the analog tapes and the CD package full of all sorts of super rare nuggets (many not available before digitally). In December Roddy Frame performed three sold-out shows in the UK to commemorate the 30th anniversary by playing the album in its entirety (complimented by additional material from his repertoire) to universal acclaim. Here’s a peek at what you missed from his recent hometown show in Glasgow: youtube/watch?v=q2AwcZ5xB9o Contemporary with fellow Glaswegians Orange Juice, Aztec Camera made their debut on vinyl with the release of the Just Like Gold single on the seminal Postcard label when Frame was only 16 years old. Another single followed on Postcard with Mattress Of Wire before the band made their move to the more firmly established Rough Trade label to record their debut album, High Land, Hard Rain (released in North America on Sire Records). The album opens with the exuberant pop of Oblivious, one of the enduring songs of its decade, which very nearly became Rough Trades first UK Top 40 hit in the early days of 1983 (Fear not, the songs re-issue on WEA later that year would drive it into the Top 20 eventually). Follow-up single Walk Out To Winter is yet another tour-de-force of pop songwriting, as well as showcasing Frames prodigious talents as a guitarist. Frame re-visited the Postcard b-side We Could Send Letters to end side one. A sweeping dramatic masterpiece of heartache and yearning, it is easily one of his most beloved compositions to this day. In his new liner notes for this edition, Rolling Stones David Fricke calls High Land, Hard Rain ten songs of anxious yearning, romantic urgency, big hurt and hard-won learning, distilled into compact dramas of buckskin-folk jangle and skewed-pop elegance. We call it the one of the greatest debut albums in the history of rock n roll. That it was written and conceived by the groups EIGHTEEN YEAR OLD mastermind, well that just defies all logic and sense of fair play. Tracklisting: CD 1/LP Oblivious The Boy Wonders Walk Out to Winter The Bugle Sounds Again We Could Send Letters Pillar to Post Release Lost Outside the Tunnel Back on Board Down the Dip CD 2/LP Download Pillar to Post (original single version) Queens Tattoos Orchid Girl Haywire Walk Out to Winter (Tony Mansfield 7 version) Set the Killing Free Back on Board (live on CFNY) We Could Send Letters (live on CFNY) Walk Out to Winter (Kid Jensen Session) Down the Dip (Kid Jensen Session) Back on Board (Kid Jensen Session) Release (Kid Jensen Session) Walk Out to Winter (John Brand unreleased single version) Walk Out to Winter (Tony Mansfield 12 version) Oblivious (Colin Fairley remix) Oblivious (Langer / Winstanley remix) The vinyl version is pressed on 180 gram virgin vinyl and includes a complimentary digital download card for both the original album and the rarities included in the compact disc package. The first 400 pre-orders will also receive a bonus 7 of rarities: A1. The Boy Wonders (Capital Radio Session) A2. Release (Capital Radio Session) B1 We Could Send Letters (C81 Version) B2 The Bugle Sounds Again (Bedroom Demo)
Posted on: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 06:05:51 +0000
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