Associates - Sulk (1982) [2000]
EAC | FLAC IMG,CUE+LOG = 536MB | MP3@320 = 223MB | 600 dpi Scans
Dream Pop | Label: V2 - VVR1012012 | FSe/FSo/FF
…mixing soul, film music, disco, Burt Bacharach and a post-punk sensibility, its sound is one of European psychedelic pop, not American rock’n’roll. With unorthodox song structures that scorn verse-chorus-verse and every instrument sonically manipulated with overdubs run wild, it seems at first like an album playing in reverse, starting with an instrumental, and following with an experimental sequence that includes the languid, intoxicated No, where spy film moodiness meets impending hysteria in some undersea cavern. The strangeness shifts with the old-money side two, which includes chart hits of heightened sensuality Party Fears Two and Club Country. Biographer Tom Doyle calls these pop moments “kaleidoscopic”, and it is like they’re dazzlingly refracted through stained glass; similarly, MacKenzie’s operatic voice is an astonishing instrument – as near as dammit black and female when they cover Diana Ross’s Love Hangover (again, a single added to the reissue). The duo would split the same year, and Billy’s story would end tragically when he killed himself in January 1997, which gives this LP’s curiously Smiths-like take on the infamous “Hungarian suicide song” Gloomy Sunday sombre extra resonance when listening back. But hear Sulk to see him in all his glorious, unique, out-to-lunch vitality. Ian Harrison on Mojo online
You can check samples at the boring 4.5 star AMG review but this a record best approached with as little preconception as possible - it's not every LP that gets chosen by Bjork in the NME's 100 Greatest Albums You've Never Heard.
Track listing
1. Arrogance Gave Him Up
2. No
3. Bap De La Bap
4. Gloomy Sunday
5. Nude Spoons
6. Skipping
7. It's Better This Way
8. Party Fears Two
9. Club Country
10. nothinginsomethingparticular
11. Love Hangover
12. 18 Carat Love Affair
13. Ulcragyceptimol
14. And Then I Read A Book
15. Australia
16. Grecian 2000
17. The Room We Sat In Before
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1. Arrogance Gave Him Up
2. No
3. Bap De La Bap
4. Gloomy Sunday
5. Nude Spoons
6. Skipping
7. It's Better This Way
8. Party Fears Two
9. Club Country
10. nothinginsomethingparticular
11. Love Hangover
12. 18 Carat Love Affair
13. Ulcragyceptimol
14. And Then I Read A Book
15. Australia
16. Grecian 2000
17. The Room We Sat In Before
Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 1 from 15. November 2010
EAC extraction logfile from 13. February 2011, 15:37
The Associates / Sulk
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EAC extraction logfile from 13. February 2011, 15:37
The Associates / Sulk
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Read mode : Secure
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Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No
Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
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