Burning Shed | UK | CD | 2020 | IICD001
It’s Immaterial: House For Sale – UK – CD [2020]
- Summer Rain
- Kind Words
- Just North Of Here
- Downriver
- Tell Me Why
- Up On The Roof
- The Gift Of Rain
- I Can’t Sleep
- In My Dreams
- How Can I Tell You
Good gravy! I had blogged a review of It’s Immaterial’s wonderful “Space” 12″ single today and when wrapping that post up, I wondered if the rumors of imminent release for the long-gestating “House For Sale” album on Burning Shed were officially manifest. I have received the occasional communique from the artists who had taken over the production and distribution of the album after the ugly crash and burn of the Pledge Music platform last year. So when I hopped over to the Burning Shed website, I saw that it was on release for today! But I have to say that it was most troubling that I had just received a Burning Shed email today, and there was no mention of “House For Sale” in it among the 7-8 titles it listed!
Apart from that communications snafu, this is wonderful news and especially since the band have said that Burning Shed will be fulfilling all of the pledged copies that fans had already paid for, going back to 2017. So, as I’ve done for the last several years, all I have to do is be patient and wait, and my copy should be arriving when the USPS sees fit to deliver it. [which is no longer assured in these, the End Times…] As I am patient to a fault, I will eagerly await its arrival along with other titles imminent and pre-paid for. A rare occurrence in this Monk’s life.
The Burning Shed site revealed that the tapes were found some years ago when Jarvis Whitehead and John Campbell were moving their studio and the unfinished masters were discovered, so this won’t exactly be a pristine 1990 album popping out of the audio wormhole. This will be as much a current album from the band as once could hope for with modern recordings and performances blended together with that which previously existed. No wonder it was taking a longer time than many had hoped. And for anyone who is familiar with their second album, “Song” as produced at Castlesound Studios with the amazing Calum Malcolm, know ye that he was also behind the boards for the tapes which formed the basis of this release. Rapturous news for anyone familiar with the astonishing “Song” album.
Of course, I pledged for the CD and this can be pre-ordered at Burning Shed currently for $19.95, but there is also an LP [albeit with eight tracks, not ten] for vinyl aficionados for the sum of $33.26. It shapes up like this.
Burning Shed | UK | LP | 2020 | II001
It’s Immaterial: House For Sale – UK – LP [2020]
Side 1
- Summer Rain
- Kind Words
- Just North Of Here
- Tell Me Why
Side 2
- Up On The Roof
- The Gift Of Rain
- In My Dreams
- Downriver
We can see the album has lost “I Can’t Sleep” and “How Can I Tell You” and the running order has shifted to take the vagaries of vinyl into account. Fans of intelligent, emotive pop whether of a digital or analog persuasion would do well to put this one in your own private Record Cell like I did. It’s easy, just hit that button!
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Interesting article. Need to look into this. Thanks for the heads up. Always find something I’ve never much heard of but need to, on PPM.
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At last, what a saga this has been, can’t wait. I remember my brother mentioning a mythical third album many years back. I think a version circulated in the early days of the Internet.
There’s a good interview as well in the current classic pop magazine.
On a separate note, the days of me getting packages from the States in under a week are long gone, now it’s more like three weeks, if you get tracking you can see that much of the time is spent crawling around the U.S before leaving. It must cause issues for mail order dealers as I can imagine they end up fielding a lot of, ‘where’s my stuff emails?’. Patience is needed!
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I am really looking for a continuation of that wonderful world they created with Calum Malcolm on Song. The interweb has leaked songs from that period, since the aborted Pledge attempt, that won’t be found here on House For Sale. It makes me hopeful for a bit more from Jarvis and John in time.
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Echorich – Getting this album out the door has been a never ending saga for the band and was fraught with complications from all angles. One can hope but I’d understand if they laid low for a while and we’ll have to see how things progress.
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Not only ordered, but also ordered the very exciting Film Music 1976-2020 CD from Brian Eno, not of course to be confused with Music for Films. Looking forward to hearing this, had no idea it had finally been realised!
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chasinvictoria – I just got a Soundcloud review link for this and will review it as soon as I can get a little quality time – hopefully this weekend.
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Received on Wednesday, listened yesterday – it’s not a let down, they had me from the opening track! Beautiful.
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SimonH – Patiently awaiting my copy. As I have been for a while! I have access to a press stream but simply no time to sit and listen to an album. If I can’t listen to something in my car, then I have no time to listen to music at all.
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