This is one of Roddy's best albums and I can't wait to hear the rarities. Glad to see it's getting a deluxe release. Read on for details...
Domino Records will be releasing of
the 30th anniversary edition of Aztec
Camera's classic debut album, High Land, Hard Rain in North America on Feb. 4. 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). High Land, Hard Rain
and the rarities are streaming now via Pitchfork Advance.
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 bit of his recent hometown show in
Glasgow:
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," which very nearly became Rough Trade's first UK Top 40 hit in the early days of 1983
(the song's 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 Frame's prodigious
talents as a guitarist. Frame re-visited the Postcard b-side "We Could
Send Letters" to end side one.
In his new
liner notes for this edition, Rolling Stone's 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."
Track listing:
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)
Queen's
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)
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