Tractor - The Art Of Being Steve Clayton - VINYL LP

The Outfit career defining new album, Preservers of the Pearl, asserting themselves as messengers of the new wave of underground rock and roll, pushing the movement forward alongside fellow trailblazers Mystery Lights, Sheer Mag, Shadow Show, Uni Boys + more.Everything has been leading here. Daniel Romano shifts from his position as sole writer, opening the floor to Outfit stalwarts Ian Romano and Carson McHone, and welcoming into the fold longtime friend and legendary Canadian rock-n-roller, Tommy Major. The band is functioning as a true collective - multiple voices and perspectives - all serving one creative pulse. The result is both a new beginning and a homecoming, a complete and fearless statement.Tracked to tape at their own Camera Varda studio, the album captures the band live in the room - breathing, musing, and believing. It's the sound of human hands and hearts at work, in a shared moment of co-creation, preserved in real time in stunning hi-fi.Here is music as communion - rock n roll as experience. Preservers of the Pearl rejects the flattening forces in modern times - what the band calls Inchthe mono-agriculture of the mind.Inch In a Inchtarget cultureInch, condemned to homogeny and banality, The Outfit refuse Polish and uniformity, embracing imperfection as truth, and promoting curiosity through creativity. At the center of it all is a deep spiritual current - what The Outfit calls Rock & Roll Magick the belief that music is a sacred act, a force that can reconnect the individual to what is larger.The Outfit are making music that is purposeful and profoundly urgent. Preservers of the Pearl is an invocation - it's fearless in a time of great compromise, and resolute in an age of peripheral bullshit. Here is a band serving something greater than themselves.

Gatefold sleeve, blue 180g vinyl. Recorded as an instrumental by Tractor in Rochdale in 1971 and originally released on LP in 1972, InchShubunkinInch has now been sampled by LA band Broken Bells as the basis of their track InchTo Anyone a GhostInch. Julian Cope writes about the Tractor track InchShubunkinInch ...InchThen, one night in mid 1972, John Peel played a track that was more mysterious than almost anything I had ever heard. It was the music I thereafter wanted played at my funeral and was most certainly the sound of a soul approaching the canopy of heaven as it left the earth for the last time.Inch Issued now as a protest against Rochdale Boroughwide Housing's plans to knock down four of the Seven Sisters/College Bank Flats- these blocks of flats were home to Tractor's drummer in the 1970s as well as their manager Chris Hewitt and a whole host of poets, musicians, etc. Many Tractor numbers were worked out in these flats prior to recording at various studios around Rochdale and Heywood. The album now starts the way Julian Cope always wanted to run.Side 1 Shubunkin, Hope In Favour, Everytime It Happens, Make The Journey. Side 2 Watching White Stars, Little Girl In Yellow, Mr Revolution Man, Northern City, All Ends Up

Digitally remastered edition of this 1988 album. Housed in fully redesigned gatefold artwork, the band's fourth is given a chance to spread the Art Rock pioneers' music out of this world. Considered a founder of the Athens, Georgia alternative music scene - along with The B-52Inchs, Pylon, and REM. After it's original , Love Tractor embarked on a healthy touring regime to promote the record, including a 60-date stint with The B-52s on their Cosmic Thing tour. Though the band went on hiatus in the early 1990s, they would return again in 2001 and are currently working on new music.