![]() When I first heard it I was scared of it, and that's why I loved it, and kept listening. It's like Nick Cave took all the passion and craziness of that time, put it into hell then poured it all out into this record. ![]() "When I first heard this record, when I was about 17, I couldn't wrap my head around the fact that it came out in the '80s. She co-produced the album, and it's got a really distinctive sound: no-one has ever made a debut record like this." When I found out that she played as a three piece it just blew me away I remember spending days in my bedroom trying to play O Stella and I just couldn't nail it at all. I'd just never seen that come from a woman before, or anyone at that point really, other than maybe Kurt Cobain. At first I didn't really like it, but I think it was 50ft Queenie on Rid Of Me that first drew me in, and then everything just clicked for me. ![]() I discovered PJ Harvey in my teens, basically because people writing reviews of our band would make comparisons to her music, so I thought I should listen to her. "This was a super important record to me when I was growing up. Mark Linkous is now one of my biggest inspirations."īuy Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot (opens in new tab) "It's so nice to fall in love with a new band, and I've not stopped playing this record for months: I think I'm actually driving the lads insane with how much I love Sparklehorse, going on about them all the time, to the point where they've started calling me a sparklehorse. My dad used to play Sparklehorse when I was younger, and as I got older and my tastes developed it made more sense to me. "I've recently got super into Sparklehorse, and my manager kindly gifted this to me on vinyl recently as an early birthday present. It's probably the one record that our whole band agree on as being one of the best debut albums ever, and it's a really important record to us." I can stick this record on whenever, and still enjoy it. My parents weren't super into punk music, so this was kinda the best reflection of punk that I had as a child. "I know this album's tracklist so well, because I've listened to it so much, and I love the sound of of it: before I heard, like, The Velvet Underground, this was the first time that I'd heard that kind of raw energy. They actually went to The Strokes' first ever show in Liverpool, and have met the band, which is weird, because we played with The Strokes In Berlin this year, so that was kinda another full circle moment for me, a moment I'll never forget. "My parents were pretty young when they had me, which was sorta around the time that this record came out, and they were both huge fans of The Strokes. There's videos of me dancing to The Strokes when when I was, like, four. "My mum and dad brought me up on this record, pretty much, so it will always remind me of my childhood.
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