Colossal Downer [Vinyl]

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Colossal Downer [VINYL]Opis:Colossal Downer is the first long-player from Nottingham quartet/self-help group Grey Hairs. Split over 2 sides of orange vinyl, the album was originally conceived as 2 EPs: Side A: 'Man Gulps' and Side B: 'Little Fingers', in an attempt to provide some 'listening convenience' much like a serial - we're all busy people these days after all. Together they are the Colossal Downer LP recalling nothing less than the pre-goldrush, anything-goes era of Nirvana before everyone got so hung up on genre definition. Rapid-fire punk rock blasters nestle up to a lumbering caveman grind. Echoey surf clang shares vinyl space with riff-heavy garage fuzz. It's how records are meant to be: idiosyncratic and representative of the people who made them. Featuring members of UK underground bands as diverse and respected as Lords, Fists, Cult Of Dom Keller, Fonda 500 and Kogumaza, Grey Hairs is a conscious attempt to return to the gut instinct impulses that got its 4 band members out of their bedrooms and onstage in the first place. With a reputation for carefree and chaotic live performances, the men and women of Grey Hairs have turned what started as an excuse to go to the pub on a weeknight into something truly special in a relatively short space of time. Following 7"s on Gringo and Hello Thor (a Harry Nilsson covers single entitled Grey Hairs Schmey Hairs), Colossal Downer weighs in bigger, weirder, catchier and (most importantly) louder than its predecessors. It's a convincing argument that the best way to deal with approaching middle-age and increasingly pointless employment is to simply buy more amplifiers. Never has the gradual disintegration of hearing been quite as gleeful, or therapeutic. Being in a band in the 21st century is a curious thing. You learn the art of touring from the history books and you do it once or twice as a rite of passage before you get a 'proper job'. It's the domain of the financially secure. Grey Hairs are however, financially insecure, worried, staring middle age in the face and backing down, afraid. The future is confusing and upsetting. The young distress them and they deal with modern technology like a dog being shown a card trick: mobilise a social media gameplan? Ha ha. What can they do about it? Tour in a Transit - now and again at least while no one takes any notice whatsoever. It's said it isn't stupid people who make mistakes; it is stupid people who repeat them again and again. I'm with stupid. Grey Hairs debut LP Colossal Downer is released on UK heavyweight Gringo Records, limited to 495 copies on orange vinyl with download code. // Live Dates: 13th Mar Nottingham Stuck On The Name Studios 17th Derby The Hairy Dog 19th June Nottingham The MazeAutor:Grey HairsNośnik:VinylPłyt:Język: Data wydania: 2015-04-27Waga: 0.79 gramWysokość: 0.7 cmSzerokość: 12.4 cmDługość: 15.1 cmUWAGA: Kupując produkt na tej aukcji zgadzasz się na wydłużony termin realizacji wysyłki (10-14 dni roboczych). Podany towar pochodzi z zagranicznego magazynu, stąd wydłużony czas realizacji który podany jest obok.