Long Live Vinyl ventures to the Australian outback retreat of Liars’ Angus Andrew, for a guided tour of the records that inspired the making of TFCF, the group’s album released in 2017 on Mute Records…
USA FOR
AFRICA
– WE ARE
THE WORLD
“It’s the first record I ever bought! I was a kid with very little cash and it was an obvious choice. For the price of one record I could get Kim Carnes, Tina Turner, Cyndi Lauper and Bruce Springsteen,
all in one buy!”
JUNIOR HOMRICH WITH BRIAN GASCOIGNE –
THE EMERALD FOREST OST
“The movie is decent but the soundtrack is phenomenal. Mystical and tribal, with some very awkward but poignant sax and bass-guitar solos.”
WHITNEY HOUSTON
– WHITNEY
HOUSTON
“First up, the artwork is amazing. I have
a copy of it hanging on the wall in my studio. The colours are beautiful. But, yeah, this thing
plays front to back
so seamlessly.
It feels effortless…”
THE KLF –
THE WHITE ROOM
“In the 90s, I was a stomper. I’d go to clubs where circles were formed and people would take turns in the middle doing ‘the stomp’.
It was a blast. The KLF and their mysterious brand of ‘stadium house’ was the go-to on those nights.”
BLONDE REDHEAD
- MELODY OF
CERTAIN
DAMAGED
LEMONS
“Such an important record for me. The musicianship, the songwriting and the lyrics blew my socks off when I heard it. This was at the same time we were mixing the first Liars record.”
GOGOGO AIRHEART
– OUT EVERY WINDOW THE SNAP OF ENVY & GREED
“Brash, playful and aggressive… GoGoGo Airheart were smashing elements of punk and dub together at the beginning of the 00s like no one else.”
ANDY STOTT
– LUXURY
PROBLEMS
“My comprehension of music production flipped when I got my hands on this record. Stott recorded and sampled the voice of his piano teacher Alison Skidmore in a way that made me reconsider everything I was doing.”
THE KNIFE
– DEEP CUTS
“I’ve collected all of The Knife’s records on vinyl. They’re magnificent things to own and I enjoy each one of them for different reasons.
I find myself playing Deep Cuts the most because some of the songs on there are my favourites of all time.”
DEVENDRA BANHART –
SMOKEY ROLLS DOWN THUNDER CANYON
“I hadn’t picked up on Devendra’s work until I bought this. From then on, I became a devoted fanboy. The mix of instrumentation and styles and the epic scale of the work sent me reeling.”
DEN SORTE SKOLE
– LEKTION III
“This is an incredible work of sample-based storytelling… It weaves together disparate elements of music, taken from thousands of different sources, to create a collage that subsumes the individual components.”