Aztec Camera ORIG UK LP High land Hard rain EX ’83 Rough Trade ROUGH47 Alt Rock
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Aztec Camera ORIG UK LP High land Hard rain EX ’83 Rough Trade ROUGH47 Alt Rock
Original UK LP released in 1983 on Rough Trade Records. Cat: ROUGH 47. Comes with gloss printed lyric inner bag which is in Excellent condition.
Some performers never make a bigger splash than with their first record, a situation that the Ramones and De La Soul know all too well. If that's the case, though, said musicians had better make sure that debut is a doozy. Aztec Camera, or more specifically, Roddy Frame, falls squarely into this scenario, because while he has doggedly plugged away ever since with a series of what are, at times, not bad releases, High Land, Hard Rain remains the lovely touchstone of Frame's career. Very much the contemporaries of such well-scrubbed Scottish guitar pop confectionaries as Orange Juice, but with the best gumption and star quality of them all, Aztec Camera led off the album with "Oblivious," a mini-masterpiece of acoustic guitar hooks, lightly funky rhythms, and swooning backing vocals. If nothing tops that on High Land, Hard Rain, most of the remaining songs come very close, while they also carefully avoid coming across like a series of general sound-alikes.
Tracks : Oblivious/ The boy wonders/ Walk out to winter/ The bugle sounds again/ We could send letters/ Pillar to post/ Release/ Lost outside the tunnel/ back on the board/ Down the dip.
There are a few light spindle marks on labels. Record has some light scuff marks that cause a few light crackles and is in Excellent condition. Cover has a few tiny surface tears around edges and is in Excellent condition.
Wrapping method: All records are sent in stiff cardboard mailers then wrapped in brown paper and sealed around edges with brown packaging tape. Records are taken out of sleeve to avoid seam splits and ring wear.
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