[ Rough Trade / 2 LP ]
Release Date: Friday 17 December 2021
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15th anniversary edition of The Long Blondes debut album, the acclaimed Someone To Drive You Home.
The home of a host of indie disco classics with its noir atmospheres and vivid storytelling - qualities that saw the record inspire recent, generation-capturing movie Giddy Stratospheres which takes its name from The Long Blondes' iconic single - the Sheffield band's first album managed that rare trick of capturing the 2000s zeitgeist while leaving a timeless artistic mark for the ages.
Initially inspired by the frisson of the indie disco - now, fittingly, a classic of low-lit dancefloors everywhere - 'Giddy Stratospheres' is The Long Blonde's sophisticated calling card. A swirl of razor-sharp guitars and vivid storytelling, waltzing melodies and burning vocals, the Sheffield band's 2000s single fizzes with dancing, desire, and the most stylish sing-along you'll ever hear.
The anniversary edition of Someone To Drive You Home, which was originally released in November 2006 and was produced by Pulp member Steve Mackey, comes as a limited edition, double gatefold LP. Pressed on to red and yellow vinyl to mirror the album's artwork - a picture of actress Faye Dunaway also painted by Jackson - the edition features the original record, plus 11 additional tracks that the band used on B-sides.
[LP1] 01. Lust In The Movies - Remastered / 02. Once And Never Again - Remastered / 03. Only Lovers left Alive - Remastered / 04. Giddy Stratospheres - Remastered / 05. In The Company Of Woman - Remastered / 06. Heaven Help The New Girl - Remastered / 07. Separated By Motorways - Remastered / 08. You Could Have Both - Remastered / 09. Swallow Tattoo - Remastered / 10. Weekend Without Makeup - Remastered / 11. Madame Ray - Remastered / 12. A Knife For The Girls - Remastered
[LP2] 01. Five Ways To End It - Single B-Side / 02. Fulwood Babylon - Single B-Side / 03. The Whippet Fancier - Single B-Side / 04. Who are You To Her? - Single B-Side / 05. Never To Be Repeated - Single B-Side / 06. All Bar One Girls - Single B-Side / 07. I'm Coping - Single B-Side / 08. Last Night On Northgate St - Single B-Side / 09. Platitudes - Single B-Side / 10. Melville Farr - Single B-Side / 11. The Unbearable Lightness of Buildings - Single B-Side