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CD: LTMCD 2324
RELEASE DATE: 2000
LABEL: LTM
01. Music For Someone
02. Discovery
03. Floating World
04. The Fire
05. Life By The Sea
06. White Shadow
07. Calcutta
08. Postcards
09. (This Is) Harmony
10. Shanghai Gesture
11. Leave Her To Heaven
12. Light
13. Nightshift
14. I Wish I Could Speak Your Language
15. The Astronaut
16. Cat
17. I Wish I Could Speak Your Language (MIX)
Full length 17 track reissue from the acclaimed Belgian group The Names. Likewise their appeal was equally removed, the bulk of their records selling on the strength of their association with the FACTORY label and producer Martin Hannett, rather than the excellent music they invariably contained. Yet the group deserved better, for the Names turned in a brand of sophisticated alt.rock far superior to that purveyed by the majority of their English peers. Between 1979 and 1982 The Names released a string of sublime singles, including Calcutta, the Astronaut and the classic Nightshift. Their sole album, Swimming, appeared in 1982 on Crepuscule, and like the preceding singles was produced by Martin Hannett. This CD combines the entire album with extra tracks including both sides of the Nightshift and Calcutta singles, plus the Astronaut and three tracks recorded for Crepuscule compilation albums. Full sleevenotes, memorabilia and original Benoit Hennebert artwork. The Factory-issued "Nightshift," a nocturnally glum tune that somehow manages to glisten in a manner similar to Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart," stands as one of the Names' standout moments, if not their absolute best. This album exhibits many of the fine qualities of early 80s avant-rock: icy brutalism, spectral reverb, tormented vocals, techno-tribal rumbles.
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