Slapp Happy - Sort OfIn 1972, left wing intellectual film critic Uwe Nettelbeck suggested to Anthony Moore that he might write some straight songs (relatively speaking), which in turn prompted Moore to invite his old schoolfriend Peter Blegvad over to Hamburg to form the band Slapp Happy. Dagmar Krause, a young singer from Hamburg and Moores girlfriend, joined them both on their trip to Wmme to record what was to become this album, Sort of, using Faust as their rhythm

‘Daylight’ pushes forward with a prettiness matched by Katie’s oblique

Naughty Boys Instrumental was released in July 1983

Using zither

All ‘specials’ are randomly distributed

out June 3rd on Matador

Alan Burgess left around 1975 and Dave Addison was added on bass guitar in 1976

The album includes an all new original art direction with new notes and classic film stills and comes pressed on Orange Haze vinyl

‰۝åÊConcrete and GoldåÊmarries some of the most insanely heavy Foo Fighters riffs ever with lush harmonic complexities courtesy of a first time team-up with producer Greg Kurstin (Adele

but it was the text from Weller that helped bring them together for critically-acclaimed songsmith Pilgrim

every album of quality should start a dance craze)

‘The Last Wooden Ship’ evokes the shipyards of Sunderland using droning harmonium and viola lines

Stardust runs chronologically from late 1986 to the middle of 1989