Slanted & Enchanted: Luxe & Reduxe

think that was also the time of the excellent peel session song circa 1792 (recorded a couple of months later in June). what a period. favourite pavement material without question.

"kentucky cocktail" too (from that peel session) ... they were on quite a streak!

i don’t think there’s ever been a record that’s quite hit me like watery domestic. it came at a time when i was just coming out of the difficult period of being a teenager turned into a realisation that being different and liking different things to most of my cohort was *interesting* and exciting rather than embarrassing. emboldened by realising sixth form was not going to be the same as uniformed school where i felt ashamed of myself and being smart, and feeling liberated as a consequence. hormonal impulses not in conflict or denial any more but a burgeoning sense of “hey, you got this” (christ, *that* turned out badly). and i remember waking up and feeling and kind of *aware* of myself, on a sunny winter morning. dropping the needle on the record before going to school, and that triumphal reveille riff of guitar just after the beginning of Frontwards.

I’m almost scared to listen to it too much even now, because whenever i do it brings that moment and period - the feel of it - back with painful powerful lucidity and i don’t want to wear it out.

https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2022/02/28/electricity-lust-pavements-slanted-enchanted-live/