Kirsty MacColl - Electric Landlady (10th Anniversary Edition) (half-speed master - 180G black vinyl)

Demon Records Half-Speed Master

£30.58

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: DEMREC1200
Barcode: 5014797911048
Release Date: 08 Mar 2024
Genre: Pop

Wit, liveliness and crackling musical ideas, jumping between global genres with relish – Kirsty MacColl’s third album, Electric Landlady, has all of them. It also has quite the title, as her friend and occasional songwriting partner Johnny Marr writes over e-mail. “We spent a lot of time together [then] hanging out, listening to records late at night and then making our own records during marathon recording sessions. I lived in her flat in Shepherds Bush which is how we came up with ’Electric Landlady’”.

Many collaborations light up this LP. The defiant country swing of All I Ever Wanted was a result of a writing partnership by post, exchanging tapes with American musician Marshall Crenshaw. He Never Mentioned Love, written with The Pogues’ Jem Finer, is a more mature, wry take on Kirsty’s earlier girl group-flavoured pop. The Hardest Word, written with her older brother, Hamish, is also about their late father, the renowned folk singer Ewan, with whom she had a tough relationship.

Pressed up on 180g audiophile vinyl, half speed mastered from the original analogue tapes by Phil Kinrade at AIR studios.

Tracklisting
1) Walking Down madison (6.34)
2) All I Ever Wanted 93.51)
3) Children of The Revolution (3.58)
4) Halloween (3.43)
5) My Affair (5.25)
6) Lying down (4.49)
7) He Never Mentioned Love (3.50)
8) We’ll Never Pass This Way Again (4.35)
9) The Hardest Word (4.38)
10)Maybe It’s Imaginary (2.15)
11)My way Home (4.30)
12) The One And Only