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This morning I listened to Mary Margaret O’Hara for the first time in yonks. She still sounds wonderful.

One remarkable album, Miss America in 1988, and that’s pretty much it.

So my question to you is: which other bands or artists made one amazing album and then just vanished?

I’ll be fairly easy going about my definition of one album here. Someone like Linda Perhacs who made one LP and then vanished into obscurity for a very, very long time belongs here. Also musicians who then formed other bands are also welcome.

DuCo01 is a whizz in this area. He’s constantly discovering lost masterpieces.

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    • Apparently they were a band with openly “communist leanings” so just the one album was probably inevitable in 60’s America. It was a completely original sound when I first heard it in 68 and still give it play every now and again.

  3. Two of my absolute favourite 80s albums are one album wonders. ‘Neither Moscow Nor Washington’ by The Redskins and ‘Hipsway’ by Hipsway.

    • Hipsway did do a second album, but it doesn’t count cause it wasn’t very good. Johnny McElhone had left to form Texas by that point, which probably contributed to the lack of tunes.

      • Forget Her was originally on the album but was removed late on as it would felt to unbalance the record.

        Not a fan of it myself, although I do like Everybody Here Wants You. There are a couple of other good tunes on “Sketches for my Sweetheart…”, namely Sky is a Landfill and Morning Theft.

  9. Well, I supose one of the classic responses to this question is Jackson C. Frank’s “Blues Run The Game”.

    How do I post a video? I’m afraid I haven’t been following the Snaggist List thread as closely as I should.
    I can only seem to post a link…

  11. I’m also happy to accept solo albums by members of a band/backing singers or a temporary combination of talents such as the David Byrne St Vincent project.

    As far as I know, Was (not Was) singer, Sweetpea, has only made one solo album.

  12. A band you don’t hear mentioned too often is Jade.
    They were an English folk band who made one album “Fly on Strangewings” in 1971.
    Their singer, Marian Segal, sounded like Sandy Denny. Well, a bit like Sandy Denny. Only not as good, obviously.

  13. Bed by FiveThirty.

    A few years later and they could have been Oasis. Superb sixties influenced guitar pop that got lost because everyone was wearing plaid and pretending to be angst ridden and from Seattle.

    They even had a song called Supernova…

    • One of my favourite albums of all time. I knew of them from the 80s Mod scene, they’d released a single, an early version of one of their tunes Catcher In The Rye back in about 1986. The recent remastered deluxe version with all the b-sides and extras is great.

  14. More backing singers that made their own album. This time from Ry Cooder’s band.: Bobby King and Terry Evans. Guess who’s playing guitar here!

    Rather a good album it was too.

      • Amen to that. Love that album and that version. Lost my original vinyl somewhere along the way and paid an abolsuet fortune to replace on Japanese import CD years later.

    • Johnny Porter came up on shuffle tonight and I once again marvelled at what a great band RC had assembled in that 76-81 period. Crucial to that was the Likely Lads themselves, Bob and Terry. For example, their version of Dark End of the Street on Showtime renders all other versions irrelevant.

      (here’s an OGWT clip that illustrates this)

  16. Already this thread has performed a service. I was going to suggest The Goats’ Tricks Of The Shade, but it turns out they had a follow up (equally difficult to get, I see). It will probably be rubbish as music is strewn with acts who made a great debut and could have just done a mic drop and been the coolest, but had to come back for a disappointing encore. Cannibal Ox’s The Cold Vein is my second favourite hip hop album. Ten years they stayed quiet, assuring legendary status, then returned with a meh follow up sans super producer El-P.
    I did an Edwyn Collins / Orange Juice list on the “Let’s Play A Game” thread. I realised afterwards I should have included James Kirk’s wonderful solo Lp You Can Make It If You Boogie.
    Two that intrigue me because I know nothing about the people who made them are Local Information by The French and For Beginner Piano by Plone.
    (Googling “The French” is surprisingly unhelpful!).

  17. There are a few bits and pieces in my collection that sort of count, even when people have done a second album, or an unreleased third.

    Whale, the album with Tricky on it, ‘We Care’ is perfect, not a duff track, lots of noise and energy and fizz-bang.

    johnny Male who has been in Republica and Saint Etienne and Soul Family Sensation did an album under the ‘band name’ Sensation. The album is called Burger Habit and is a lost 90s pop classic. ‘Tell Your Parents That I Hate Their Guts’ is the best Microdisney song never recorded by that group. That song sounds like this:

    And then I’ve got a sneaky fondness for Andy Pawlak’s debut album from the late 80s, the one with Mermaids on it. Style Council, Roddy Frame, Prefab Sprout, Blow Monkeys sort of thing, But as good as any of those.

    Finally Eg & Alice’s only album 24 Hours Of Hunger. What an album….

  20. I was going to suggest US Primitive guitarist Don Bikoff, who made one album, “Celestial Explosion” in 1968.

    However, it turns out that he made a follow to to this called “Hallowed Ground”, a mere 46 years later, in 2014. One might say that he ‘did a Linda Perhacs’.

  22. Rain Tree Crow
    “The Rain Tree Crow project had initially been conceived as a long term 6-album deal, with Sylvian’s insistence that the name Japan would not be used in conjunction with its promotion. But the recording went over budget and Virgin refused to put in any more money unless the name Japan could be used. Sylvian refused. He saw a band as a moment in time and Japan’s moment had passed. The way of making music with RTC was totally different to Japan, being largely improvisational. So Sylvian decided to personally finance the mixing of the album himself and release it as a one-off.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S01jIqz7BU

  26. Mention of Lloyd Cole reminded me of the one excellent album he did with the Negatives. A very fine band that included none other than Jill Sobule. I was lucky enough to catch them live too.

  28. A great good time Brighton pop punk act. One album that reached 69 in the UK charts. Dropped like a brick.
    Guitarist, Johnny Helmer joined Marillion and Boring Bob Grover has just formed Piranhas Four and out on tour.

  30. For the followers of Jellyfish members projects there’s been lots to dig into – quite a few one-offs. But I think this was the best of those, Imperial Drag.

  31. Samuel Purdey – Musically Adrift. Originally released in 1999 to a deafening “who cares?”, not re-released until 2013. An out-of-its-time AOR/Yacht Rock masterpiece.

    Lucky Radio:

  32. Yeah, I loved that Imperial Drag album. Jellyfish were like a nail bomb of spin offs after they split.
    All the separate solo stuff, UmaJets, The Moog Cookbook, and the oddest of all, one album wonder.. imaginary soundtrack to an imaginary sequel, Logan’s Sanctuary

  33. Hughes Thrall is a personal fave from the 80s I still play. Glen Hughes and Pat Thrall keep threatening a follow up but it’s yet to happen. I don’t expect this to find any folks on here who agree with me or convert anyone, it’s 80s ‘open top cruisin’ on the freeway, hair in the wind, peddle to the metal’ rawk.

  35. You keep your foot on the pedal James! I bet there are lurkers who are quietly rawking away

    By way of complete contrast …..

    The only album made by this mother and son duo. And it’s a corker.

    • Funny that, I was at the ‘ossie yesterday and they told me my right foot wouldn’t get anymore flexible so I’d have to use hand controls for driving. Pinky to the pedal doesn’t have the same ring. 🙁

    • There was one more Lal Waterson & Oliver Knight album, namely “A Bed of Roses”.
      It was OK, but naturally not a match for the staggeringly brilliant “Once in a Blue Moon”

  36. I’m always a fan of the underdog it would seem… so many classics… but only one album apiece!

    Larrikin Love “The Freedom Spark”
    The 45s “The 45s”
    The Bandits “And They Walked Away”
    Dum Dums “It Goes Without Saying”
    Rob Dougan “Furious Angels”
    Urban Thermo Dynamics “Manifest Destiny”
    Soel “Memento”
    Hopper “English And French”
    Childs “Yui”
    The Cake Sale “The Cake Sale”
    Manchild “Untied States”
    Mark B & Blade “TheUnknown” etc etc…. I could go on.

    Although I seem to be even more obsessed with artists who just do two albums and then fizzle out… another thread perhaps?

  39. I’ll nominate 801, who were intended right from the start to be a 3-gig, 1-album wonder.

    Phil Manzanera fancied doing something with Brian Eno while Roxy Music were on hiatus. They brought along Phil’s old Quiet Sun bassist buddy Bill McCormick, who brought in ex-Curved Air keyboardist Francis Monkman, who’d he’d been working with on a projected mk.3 version of Matching Mole until Robert Wyatt’s accident. Slide guitarist Lloyd Watson and a rather young Simon Phillips on drums completed the lineup and they played a warmup at West Runton Pavilion, Reading Festival and Queen Elizabeth Hall at the South Bank before splitting up again.
    Just the one live album from their final gig was released at the time. A live rehearsal session from the time has now also been released. Including this.

    • I think he only counts if Chris Squire’s Swiss Choir are treated as a separate act. Which they clearly should be. I can’t bring myself to link to that album. It’s rotten – apart from the name!

  45. And I would include the most excellent Chilli Willi & the Red Hot Peppers: Bongos over Balham.
    (Yes I know the core duo of Lithman and Stone did the earlier Kings of the Robot Rhythm, with guests, but it wasn’t widely released or available. Or that good.)
    Here’s the Willis!!

    Interesting fact, given a “lith” is a stone in medical speak, cholelithiasis = gallstones etc. It was really Stoneman and Stone!!

  46. Someone else mentioned this in connection with my mention of the See For Miles 10th anniversary sampler; it’s not quite a one-hit, because he did one other album in his own name, but boy is it good. Ladeeezn’ngennlmun, I give you Mike McGear’s “McGear”:

    • According to wikipedia The Congos did loads of albums. I’ve never come across anything else either. I know most reggae aficionados love this album, but I find the sound really muddy and swampy and have never really liked it. There are some good songs buried underneath Perry’s production though.

  55. Another one-off, by a guy who’d had other strings to his bow – at one time having been in a band with Paul Kossoff, but only ever put out the one album in his own name; – “Anything For A Laugh” came out on Transatlantic, and had a great line up.

    Brian Short died last year, not long after this got a CD release via Japan; another title that’s sadly only available for stupid money now.

  56. Couple from me. I know some on here turn their nose up at Mark Knopfler but his Notting Hillbillies album is really rather good – some fine covers and a loose feel of a band of mates playing together. Same them live at Ronnie Scotts and it was a fine gig.
    The other is Little Village -sadly only one album which must go down as a missed opportunity.

    • You beat to it with the LV album – it does seem to split opinions widely, though (although it definitely a One-album wonder). I’m on the “really like it a lot” side myself

  58. Rave from the grave, Sweet Thursday

    Nicky Hopkins “of” the Stones, Alun Davis, perennial Cat Stevens no.2 and Jon Mark (as in Mark Almond, as opposed to Marc Almond)
    Great stuff!

  59. I’d like to nominate Nick Masons Ficticious Sports.

    Ok, so it’s a Carla Bley project but it does feature the great Robert Wyatt on many of the tracks and it’s the Floyd “solo project” album I find myself revisiting the most

  60. KFD – Mary Margaret O’Hara contributed quite a few songs to the soundtrack of a film called “Apartment Hunting” I’ve favourited it on Spotify but I’ve yet to find the album.

  61. Coming from Sweden I am contractually obliged to mention Jakob Hellman and his 1989 album “…Och Stora Havet”. Huge hit, rave reviews, still always end up pretty high in every list of “best Swedish albums”.
    Never made another one, became an art director IIRC.

    In later years he has at least started to play live again, and rumours say that a second album might be on its way…

  64. Can it be that no one has mentioned Mellow Candle yet? One album, for Deram, in 1972 – and it was exquisite. (An album of demos was released 25-odd years later, but that hardly counts – although it, too, is brilliant.)

    Lots of terrific music above, chaps. I was pleasantly surprised by Judy Henske – and the alternative TNK by 801 (I’ve only heard the original live album) was stunning!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5X_OmrtQ28

  65. Sara Isaksson & RebeckaTornqvist – Fire in the Hole
    Young Disciples – Road to Freedom
    John Cale & Terry Riley – Church of Anthrax
    Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Raising Sand
    Wynder K. Frog – Out of the Frying Pan
    Working Week – Working Nights
    Daniel Ponce – New York Now!
    Quatermass
    New Radicals (although patchy)

    All goodies.

  66. There was just about enough recorded material to scrape together Ray Heredia’s first and only album ‘Ouien No Corre, Vuela’. One of the founding members of the nuevo flamenco band Ketama, Heredia was a relentless experimenter, a master melodist – and, unfortunately, a junkie. Following his OD in 1991, the resulting swan song was, predictably, alternately gorgeous and a half-baked mess. But the gorgeous moments – mixing the sweet and the harsh the way the best flamenco does – were so much so….
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIuSstBSI7U

  68. All Night Radio, a shortlived band featuring the very wonderfully named ‘Farmer Dave’ Scher & Jimi Hey, both previously in Beechwood Sparks, & I think both of ’em were in The Lilys, produced a fab psychedelic pop masterpiece in Spirit Stereo Frequency & then seem to have disappeared.

  69. 50 Foot Wave & Golden Ocean. Kristin hersh releases her inner RAWK chick in a glorious screamy release of pent-up rage. Great for those days when ya want to blow the cobwebs out. 10 years old now, & never tire of it, & apparently there’s talk of her finally doing a follow up.

    • Have you heard “Castle of Crime”, the one-off more-or-less-instrumental album that Dave Narcizo did under the name Lakuna? Kristin’s playing guitar on it too. I haven’t played it for a while I’ll admit, but I remember liking it at the time. A guess “Solo Album From The Drummer” wasn’t necessarily a big selling point though 🙂

      Off to look if it’s on Spotify now to save me scouring the shelves upstairs…

  70. So far only one album from the Benji, but WHAT an album from this hunk of a man. Glorious glorious stuff. Shoulda been HUUUGE. Good time music from the walking epitome of The Dude. i love it. Here’s them discussing the making of the album

  71. Here’s a few in my collection that may qualify:
    Sid Rumpo “First Offence”
    Bram Stoker “Heavy Rock Spectacular”
    Bedlam “Bedlam”
    Hate “Hate Kills”
    Clear Light “Clear Light”
    Phliph “Phluph”
    Ambergris “Ambergris”
    Titus Groan (Reissue)
    Zior “Plus” (Reissue)
    Silk “Smooth As Raw”

    As far as I’m aware they are all one of albums (LPs -vinyl) – if there is any doubt or known other releases please enlighten me.

  73. Declan mentioned the wonderful Fire in the Hole.

    So I’m going to recommend an album that Sara Isaksson did with jazzer Anders Widmark. A great favourite of mine. She’s a wonderful singer.

    I could only find this live clip but I hope the album is on Spotify. (I’m cheating a little as they did do one more album together but it wasn’t quite as good).

  74. Festivals have the financial resources to back interesting projects. My favourite, Roskilde in Denmark are particularly good at this.

    Here’s Apparatjik, a band containing members of Coldplay, Mew and A Ha.

    It was on late and I was knackered so I went to bed and missed it. Regret that now.

  76. It’s in the nature of jazz that there should be a lot of one offs.

    But the album that the eternal Elis Regina and Toots Thieleman recorded here during a couple of days here in Stockholm is very special. Until I had no idea that there were any film clips of them together. A mega find for me. Ivylander will like this too I suspect.

    What a very odd couple they make!

    This track is not representative of the album. But it does feature some amazing whistling from Toots.

    http://youtu.be/_AUMhRPcxWU

    • Ah, ‘twould’ve been Jenny Lewis probably. She’s a friend of his. When I found out he was doing support for her tour I tried to get a ticket but ’twas completely sold out. Think he’s gotten rather lost in a cocaine & beer haze over the last few years. Hopefully not permanently. A lot of talent to waste. Great pop music, with a knowing wink to the camera. I once spent a fine morning here at home dancing around to it in a pair o’ knickers & a cape- just because I could. There’s not many albums you could say that about 🙂

  80. I’m not entirely sure how Lloyd Cole got the “one album” tag.

    he may not have stayed in the forefront of the public consciousness, ut to my mind he just got better and better after leavinmg the Commotions. The more watch how he manages himself, how he releses hismusic and uses social media, the more impressed i am.

    going to see him in a couple of weeks, and am looking forward to it immensely.

    (also I apologize for not replying to the appropriate post, but my iPad takes me straight to the bottom of the thread)

    • Neither am I. I love Rattlesnacks, an old colleague was friends with assorted Rattlesnakes (and Andrew Innes) and that still didn’t prompt me to delve deeper. I really can’t say why.

  83. The predecessor to the Daptone label which gets many favourable mentions here was Desco. They also concentrated on retro funk and soul, but their best album was Soul Explosion by the Daktaris, an afrobeat album with such an authentic sounding 70s production that it fooled many people into believing it was a lost classic. It was their only album, some of the band went on to form Antibalas so their good work continues.

  84. Geezers Of Nazareth
    They only released some EPS and one album in 2002, Songs On The Radio. Shame, they had some unusual but accessible tunes. Like a cross between The Bees and David Devant & His Spirit Wife.

  87. Lift To Experience – The Texas Jerusalem Crossroads A mad, possessed, psychedelic masterpiece full of deluded self-belief & religious visions. Don’t know how much of it was true, but it felt like they meant it man. Never got to see ’em live, though i had tickets to see ’em in the Louisiana in Brizzle, a tiny venue, which would’ve been an amazing place to see ’em, they would’ve sounded like they could’ve taken the roof off, but we got lost on the way there & arrived there so late that we missed most of the gig & my boyfriend at the time was so fraught he couldn’t face going upstairs to where the band was playing & wanted to turn around & go home. Aaaaaggghhhh!!! I could hear These Are The Days (my very favourite song by ’em) wafting down the stairs & see the ceiling above me rumble, but I thought I’d better do the sensible thing. Doh!! They broke up not long after I think. I shoulda said see ya later & gone upstairs.

      • Haha. It did that. I left Ireland to get away from religion, & yet I always get suckered in by these sons of preacher men. Guess they talk a good talk. Learned from their pappies. Mebbe I’m just drawn to the fire & the ferventcy (that’s not a word- I just invented it, but ya know what I mean I hope)

  88. This thread is working out expensive for me by the way. I keep finding albums here at home that I think are one-offs & do a bit o’ research to find out I somehow missed follow ups. Which of course has to be rectified. Between that & Zanti’s postings it’s gettin’ a tad taxing on the ol’ pursestrings. Gruel for the rest o’ the month again. Ta KFD !!!!

  93. Spratley’s Japs – Pony Tim Smith of Cardiacs, his then girlfriend Joanne Spratley & uh, some other people (I forget who) & a broken mellotron & lyrics for some o’ the songs lifted out of the hilarious book English As She Is Spoke, a Portoguese to English book of translations infamous for it’s hilariously bad grammar, as the writer of the book, not knowing any English, used, firstly, a Portuguese to French phrasebook, & then a French to English one, & thus the chaos put to page. Apparently it tickled Tim’s funnybone so he stuck some in the songs. A gem. A hard to find gem, though I’ve heard tell it’s been reprinted & available on the Cardiacs website. I can’t look. I’ll spend too much.

    & this features the mellotron in all it’s wonderful brokenness. My favourite music for listening to in the bath.

  99. Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton – Knives Don’t Have Your Back I was OBSESSED with this album when it came out. Played it continually for ages. Can’t believe I forgot it ’til now. Anyone who’s a fan of Mx2 O’Hara would find a lot to love in here I think. She hasn’t done another solo one since, preferring to stick with playin’ in her band Metric, who I’m not that keen on at all, but I absolutely love Knives

  100. Likewise, Sol Seppy, the moniker used by the very lovely Sophie Michalitsianos, who also used to play in Sparklehorse. The Bells Of 1 2 is a magical little album. Lovely to fall asleep to. I miss her. I wish she’d do another one, though she has posted some things on facebook recently that hint there may finally be an album no. 2 in the offing. Get yer finger out girl! 8 years is long enough.

  102. You’re right. ContraryArticle. Benji was indeed supporting jenny Lewis. And what a marvellous double bill that was. She was on fantastic form. Made me a fan for life. Love her latest album.

  103. Fascinating posting on Desco and the Daktaris, Alias. That’ll get me scurrying off to find out more.

    I must say that I’m very impressed by how many of the albums mentioned here are on Spotify. Hats off to them!

    71 songs now on the playlist and I’m still going through the thread and adding the stuff I’ve missed.

  104. That was a great list there, Declan. Several favourites of mine. Working Week did a few other albums but nothing as good as their fabulous debut.

    Thanks for mentioning Ray Heredia, Ivylander. A worthy addition to this list.

    In fact thanks to everyone who has been scouring their memory for old favourites. Great work from the hive mind of the AW!

    I must have a look through my cupboard to find all those gems whose names I’ve forgotten! Embarassing! For several, I can see the album cover but I can’t remember the bloody name!

  106. I’d not long discovered this lot. One album…..and then they were gone.

    A statement on their web page reads….”The Amazing Snakeheads are over. Never, ever to return.
    To anyone who came to get down, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. I’ll never let you go.
    Very best,
    Dale Barclay”

    • Possibly only one album was released in Sweden but there were a couple of albums released as plain Cockney Rebel and then a couple more as Steve Harley & CR.

  110. The Sleater-Kinney comeback was clearly A Good Thing, but it did have the unfortunate side-effect of pretty much removing the possibility that Wild Flag would ever follow up on their one album as Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss are now otherwise occupied

    Still, Mary Timony did then go off and form Ex Hex, who’ve only done one album so far so I’ll include them on a technicality for now, even though that album is barely six months old 🙂

  114. “Serendipity” by Darlingheart.

    Odd things happen when I start discussing this album. Originally I bought the “Smarthead” single for 99p from a bargain bin as a Melody Maker review likened it to Throwing Muses, which wasn’t far off. The vocals have a bit of the Kristin Hersh about them, though I can hear some of Natalie Merchant’s off-kilter phrasing in there too.

    Anyway, I was broke at the time so didn’t buy “Serendipity” until years later when I stumbled across a copy on ebay. In addition to the CD, I also got an exchange of emails with the guitarist who’d been idly tracking it just to see if there was anyone out there still interested!

    Now, reminded of them by this thread, I had a quick Google and came across a site with demo recordings of the songs which would have made up their second album if it had ever been finished. Which was a nice surprise. Oh, and I also found that singer Cora Bissett is now an actor / theatre director and was involved in the Belle and Sebastian-related “God Help The Girl” project!

    Anyway, as I couldn’t find anything from Darlingheart on Spotify or YouTube, here’s a rip of the “Smarthead” single (which may not be around long, depending on how diligent the Soundcloud copyright police are being) if you’re intrigued:

  115. As we’ve had one Japan side project in Rain Tree Crow, we should probably mention “The Waking Hours”, the album that Mick Karn did with Peter Murphy from Bauhaus as Dali’s Car.

  116. Monks – Black Monk Time: Pre Punk before Punk and Post Punk

    Cowboys International – The Original Sin: Just a fantastic pop album despite all its obvious New Wave/Post Punk trappings

    Blue Phantom – Distortions: Bunch of mysterious Italian session musicians make album of progressive psychedelic rock instrumentals that

  117. I’m thinking of far too many here, I’ll stop soon, promise! OK, being a bit selective then, I’m pretty sure I had “Will Anything Happen” by The Shop Assistants in my top twenty (if not top ten) when we did that poll of our 100 favourite albums.

    Archetypal C86 Indie buzzpop, with fizzing fuzzy guitars, deadpan vocals and drums like biscuit tins (these are all positives, I know some of you are recoiling in terror/disgust) they released this, and the classic “Safety Net” single, before fizzling out. Alex went off to form the Motorcycle Boy (“Big Rock Candy Mountain” is excellent, though their one album was never even released), before reforming the Shoppies for two slightly lacklustre singles before calling it a day again.

    Fun Fact: Wikipedia reckons the album managed a single week at number 100 on the album chart, making them joint holders of the dubious honour of the least successful chart career ever.

    Anyway, I still love ’em, especially this

    (“All That Ever Mattered” – The Shop Assistants)

  119. Time for something completely different then…

    Breakbeat Era were a one-off project for Roni Size and DJ Die with singer Leonie Laws.

    Their one album is an unholy mass of breakbeats (naturally) and Drum & Bass, and is rather brilliant.

    (“Ultra Obscene” – Breakbeat Era)

  123. As Kryton might have said: A superb playlist if I may say so Sir, with just one small drawback …I don’t know what version of Something In the Air you found – it sounds like a Karaoke version. The original is there via their one and only album Hollywood Dream

  124. Let’s have another one for a Friday afternoon. Personally I never really got why Menswe@r were quite such figures of fun, as “Nuisance” was a perfectly decent album with a couple of storming singles. “Being Brave” is a great big swelling anthemic heartstring-tugger, and this (despite, or perhaps because of, being a bit too heavily “influenced” by Wire) still sounds great.

    Breather deeper…

    (“Daydreamer” – Menswe@r)

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