The House of Love - Audience With The Mind - 180gm Vinyl - VINYL LP

Vinyl LP pressing. Sorry I Haven't Called is the 2023 album from Vagabon, the moniker of Lætitia Tamko. The album, co-produced by Tamko and Rostam (Vampire Weekend, Haim, Clairo), finds Tamko reinventing herself once again and features the most playful and adventurous music of her career. InchI didn't feel like being introspective,Inch says Laetitia Tamko of her new album Sorry I Haven't Called. InchI just wanted to have fun.Inch Following her intimate 2017 debut Infinite Worlds, the New York artist favored expansive and evocative electronic textures in her breakthrough 2019 self-titled follow-up. But her latest LP feels like a wholly new era for Tamko, one that's transformational and uncompromising. Across 12 vibrant tracks she wrote and produced primarily in Germany, she channels dance music and effervescent pop through her own confident sensibilities. These conservational songs are alive and unselfconscious, a document of an artist fully embracing her vision and reclaiming her joy. Tamko's lyrics on Sorry I Haven't Called are uniformly playful and inviting. The first words she sings on the album are, InchCan I talk my S**t? / I got way too high for this.Inch It's a statement of purpose for the rest of the album that this is an unapologetic artist. InchThis whole record is how I talk to my friends and how to talk to my lovers,Inch says Tamko. InchI think honesty and conversational songwriting can become poetry. There's beauty in plainly speaking without metaphors and without flowery imagery.Inch

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. The House of Love - guitarist and vocalist Guy Chadwick, lead guitarist Terry Bickers, bassist Chris Groothuizen and drummer Pete Evans - formed in London in 1986 - Chadwick had been around the music industry for several years, but was energised seeing The Jesus And Mary Chain, inspiring him to form the band - Signing to Creation, The House of Love were greeted enthusiastically by the music press and their single, Shine On and self-titled debut album became indie disco classics - By 1989, the band were big news and had signed to Fontana, part of the PolyGram group. The group's debut album for Fontana, also confusingly entitled The House of Love, was released in February 1990. Known often as 'The Butterfly Album' after Trevor Key's distinctive artwork, much was made at the time of it's protracted birth and the weight of expectation, and the fact it was produced by five different people. Years later, it sounds assured and confident commercial indie, bursting with invention and melody. The re-recording of their Creation calling card, Shine On, gave them a UK Top 20 hit and Beatles And The Stones points the way to the gentler side of Oasis some years later.

3 CD reissue of the British bands long out of print, critically acclaimed debut, greatly expanded with their complete Creation recordings from 1987-1988, together with a raft of previously unissued bonus material.