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CRISPY AMBULANCE - FIN + FROZEN BLOOD [2CD]

Factory Benelux

  • £12.15

Format: 2 x CD
Catalogue No.: FBN18CD  
Barcode: 708527230428 
Release Date: 22 Sep 2023
Genre: Post-Punk 

Factory Benelux presents a double disc anthology of singles, radio sessions and live tracks by cult Manchester group Crispy Ambulance, all recorded between 1980 and 1982.

Disc 1 is forceful live album Fin, comprising live performances mix-desk recorded around Europe and the UK during the winter of 1981-1982. Most of this material was never recorded in the studio and captures the band at their most powerful and hypno[c. The CD closes with three bonus studio tracks, including both sides of the debut 7” single on Aural Assault Records from 1980 (AAR 01), as well as Black Death, the b-side of 1982 single Sexus on Factory Benelux (FBN 18).

Disc 2 is archive collec[on Frozen Blood, which includes both sides of the 10” single released on Factory Records (Fac 32) in 1980, all 8 tracks from radio sessions recorded for Piccadilly Radio (July 1980) and John Peel (January 1981), plus 7 more live songs taped in 1982 but never studio recorded at the [me.

All 32 tracks have been transferred from the original analogue session tapes. 142 minutes of music in total. Cover portrait by Harry Papadopoulos. Updated liner notes by James Nice.

Disc 1: 1. Rainforest Ritual 2. United 3. Choral 4. Green Light/White Shirt (Deaf) 5. Brutal 6. The Plateau Phase 7. Nigh~all Ends the Ceasefire 8. Bardo Plane 9. At the Sounding of the Klaxon10. Chill 11. I Talking/You Talking Pts. 1+ 2 12. Lucifer Rising 13. Black Death (Life is Knife) (12”)14. From the Cradle to the Grave (7”)15. Four Minutes From the Frontline (7”)

Disc 2:
1. Not What I Expected (10”) 2. Deaf (10”) 3. Come On (Peel session) 4. Drug User/Drug Pusher (Peel session)5. October 31st (Peel session) 6. Egypt (Peel session) 7. A Sense of Reason (Piccadilly session) 8. The Eastern Bloc (Piccadilly session) 9. Concorde Square (Piccadilly session) 10. The Presence (Piccadilly session) 11. Headhunters 12. Frozen Blood13. Turnbuckle 14. The Giy of Danger 15. Hollow Points 16. The Grind 17. Cult

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