the raincoats - odyshape

New reissue on the way. (also a tour)

Only Loved at Night is pretty amazing. Makes me think of listening to Peel in the dark, hearing these strange sounds

'odyshape' is such a wonderful and strange record--one of my all-time favorites. glad they're doing this.

Oh shit, I think this is at the radio station, need to dig it up.

I hope the band adds *both* sides of the "No One's Little Girl" / "Running Away" single this time.

Actually, that's in my mind - there really wasn't much else around the time of "Odyshape," and "No One's Little Girl" had previously been added to moving (which subtracted three songs from the album and failed to add a Dennis Bovell remix from a 12" and "Running Away."

In any case, the band have confirmed that "Odyshape" will be issued same as it ever was.

yeah, i love their "running away" cover...heresy, but i might like it more than the original!

a great single.

Listened to this through earlier and wondered what else was in the same sound universe. Does seem to be pretty unique sounding.
It's historically post-punk but I'm not sure to what extent it shows it, since it doesn't sound like it taps into the idea of progression from there or acknowledge that it came from there much. I'd think the Pop Group, just to name another band from similar era that did seem to create its own soundworld, you can still see a more direct link to rock I think.

Does this tie in with RIO and Robert Wyatt's rock Bottom or something. I know he guested with them.

Also thinking the idea of the sound being down to them all being women which i think I've seen said elsewhere could be something. I was surprised to see that they had male guitarists and drummers early on. I thought Palmolive was in at the formation and thought that was part of how they formed, she left Slits and a new band was formed. But seems that was wrong. Is there a definitive band history anywhere?

The 33-1/3 book tells their story pretty thoroughly in a 150 pages. I didn't like the book quite as much as everyone else, but it'll probably give you what you want.

I recently downloaded Moving, their third album. Didn't get a lot out of it, although it included the "No One's Little Girl" single, which is fantastic.

Cool, thanks