Tony L
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Richard (Lordsummit) was round earlier and I spun Buzzcocks Another Music In A Different Kitchen, as one does in reverence to the late Pete Shelley. Very fine it was too. Anyway Richard left, I have no more Buzzcocks and I needed something else to play, so rather than my usual transition to Magazine’s Real Life or Correct Use Of Soap I went for my largely ignored copy of Secondhand Daylight. Side one kind of washed over the way I remember it doing (still good), but side two is bloody brilliant, far better than I remember! I’d always kind of dismissed this album as a kind of (at the time deeply unfashionable) prog-rock filler between the genius that was RL or CUOS; all synth washes and a rather odd EQ. It still has that rather odd ‘mid-scooped’ sound aesthetic (and mine is an A1/B2 original, so likely as good as it gets), but I really enjoyed hearing it again. New-wave prog at its finest! Side two really plays as a thing, the transition from The Thin Ice through to Permafrost is wonderful.
I’m now playing Devoto’s post-Magazine Jerky Versions Of The Dream solo LP, which I’ve always loved.
Anyway, if you’ve got a copy of Secondhand Daylight that has sat unused for a decade or two give side two a play!
I’m now playing Devoto’s post-Magazine Jerky Versions Of The Dream solo LP, which I’ve always loved.
Anyway, if you’ve got a copy of Secondhand Daylight that has sat unused for a decade or two give side two a play!