Closer To God (CD) | Mint (M) Mint (M)

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Label: Fire Records – FIRECD032
Format: CD, Album, Reissue
Country: UK
Released: 2018
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock, Indie Rock

1        You Don't Know How Lucky You Are    4:35
2        Hard Luck Story Number 39    3:24
3        Little Works Of Art    2:37
4        Razorblades & Lemonade    3:57
5        Coming Home Soon    4:00
6        Me And My Big Ideas    3:50
7        Honey For The Bears    3:53
8        I See Myself In You    2:14
9        Goodnight Mr. Spaceman    2:45
10        My Very First Nervous Breakdown    5:54
11        We Will Be Your Gurus    5:17
12        You Are Special And You Always Will Be    3:26
13        Not For The Likes Of Us    3:43
14        You're Younger Than You Know    4:24
15        Very Dark Today    3:41
16        I Hope You Have A Nice Day    2:59
17        This Heart's Not Made Of Stone    4:18
18        Baby, You're Only As Good As You Should Be    2:48
19        Closer To God    11:16

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Barcode: 8 09236 10322 2

Television Personalities: Daniel Treacy (vocals, guitars, banjo, melodica, keyboards, tambourine); Jowe Head (vocals, bass, percussion); Bekka Jones (fiddle); Derek Pascoe (saxophone); Jeffrey Bloom (drums); Kuljit Bhamra (tablas, percussion). Additional personnel: Prisoners on Death Row, Tennessee (background vocals). Personnel: Dan Treacy (vocals, guitar, banjo, melodica, keyboards, tambourine); Jowe Head (vocals); (fiddle); Derek Pascoe (saxophone); (drums); (tabla, percussion). Recording information: Red Fort Studios, Middlesex. Of the many albums released by Daniel Treacy and company, 1992's CLOSER TO GOD is widely considered to be both their masterpiece and also one of their bleakest works. Though the songs are presented in the same charmingly ragged guitar-pop fashion as earlier gems such as PRIVILEGE and AND DON'T THE KIDS JUST LOVE IT?, accented occasionally with strings and saxes, the topics covered here are often extremely dark. Songs like "Razorblades and Lemonade" and "My Very First Nervous Breakdown," for all their surface jollity, concern suicide attempts and deep depressions in unflinching first-person terms. It's not all gloom, however; both the epic eight-minute title track and "We Will Be Your Gurus" are upbeat and cautiously optimistic, and "Goodnight Mr. Spaceman" has a self-deprecating wit, mocking Television Personalities-inspired scenesters like Creation Records and Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie in an avuncular manner. CLOSER TO GOD is a shaggy jangle-pop masterwork.

• Media Condition: Mint (M)
• Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)
• Format Detail: CD
• Format: CD
• Genre: ALT/INDIE
• Format Type: CD
• Handling Note: **Please allow an additional 72 hours for this item's shipment.**
• Released: 09/14/2018
• Internal ID: JITRE