Any Other City - Life Without Buildings

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Manufacturer : D.C. Baltimore
Release date : 20 February 2000
EAN : 0677516515023
UPC : 677516515023

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Description

Björk's solo career has completely eclipsed her work with the Sugarcubes by now, and yet in the early to mid-'80s, the Sugarcubes reigned over the British charts and American college radio. The members of Glasgow's Life Without Buildings must have been paying close attention, because their debut, Any Other City, falls squarely in the tr
Björk's solo career has completely eclipsed her work with the Sugarcubes by now, and yet in the early to mid-'80s, the Sugarcubes reigned over the British charts and American college radio. The members of Glasgow's Life Without Buildings must have been paying close attention, because their debut, Any Other City, falls squarely in the tradition pioneered by the Icelandic band. The album is full of angular-yet-jangly, delicately quirky songs (nothing is outright weird) that are dominated by a pixyish female singer, this one named Sue Tompkins. A collision between the Fall's Mark E. Smith and Sleater-Kinney's Corin Tucker, Tompkins's sing-song, semi-ranting style takes over each track; if you don't go for her style, you're really out of luck. A veritable stream of free associations, for instance, makes up "The Leanover". This may drive some listeners crazy, but those who don't need straightforward lyrics as anchor will happily go along for the ride. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

Album Description
The highly anticipated US release of their debut, which came out on Tugboat (UK), Glen of Piano Magic's label. LWB features members of the Glasgow School of Art fronted by the amazing Sue Tompkins. LWB has been compared to the Fall, Patti Smith, PIL, Television, and Sleater Kinney amongst others. -- The Wire. “One of the most intriguing bands to burst into the record-buying public's consciousness in the last few years, Glasgow's Life Without Buildings deal in quirky, driving guitar music fronted with the unconventional vocal and lyrical style of singer Sue Tompkins. After three acclaimed double A-side singles released last year, anticipation for a debut album was high, and thankfully, Any Other City does not disappoint.” - Pop Star Kill. "Sure, there were traces of the same late-70s/early-80s pop and punk outfits that are now (again) all the rage-Joy Division, Gang of Four, Liliput, even a darker, down-tempo X-Ray Spex-but instead of outright homage/imitation LWB ! seemed to have fashioned these sounds into something convincingly fresh and individual. They mostly sounded like themselves." -- New York Press.

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