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32 track retrospective double CD at a regular price packaged in a 12-page booklet from one of punk's most enigmatic and boundary pushing bands. File under ground-breaking.
About the Artist
Inspired to make music their own music after a Stranglers show in Birmingham in 1977, the band soon entered the studio and recorded their first single Gordon. A £400 loan enabled them to press 1000 copies. A copy was given to John Peel and secured them their first session. Small Wonder liked the single so much that they picked up the remaining copies and booked the band into the studio with producer Bob Sargeant; the result was the Burning Bridges single followed soon by another single Precinct.
For one week in 1980 the band relocated to Torquay, recording the Cravats In Toytown album on a 8-track in a hotel basement. Released by Small Wonder in October that year the album gained healthy reviews and made it into the Top 20 in the independent charts.
For their next single Rub Me Out released May 1981, the band teamed up with Penny Rimbaud from Crass who managed to capture their darker side.
November 1981 saw the release of the band's last collaboration with Small Wonder with the rockabilly influenced single Off The Beach.
With the collapse of Small Wonder the band were picked up by Glass who released the excellent Terminus single in May '82. The single received rave reviews but no promotion and the band were again label-less.
Crass duly obliged with sister label Corpus Christi releasing the magnificent Colossal Tunes Out album in February '83 and the Crass label released probably the band's best single Rub Me Out which reached No.15 in the indie charts in July '82.
One last swansong occurred with The Land Of The Giants 12" on Reflex in 1986.
Various members departed to the Poison Girls, Pig Bros and to form the nucleus of The Very Things.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Superb Cravats,
By Nick Morris (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Land of the Giants (Audio CD)
Sub-titled 'the best of Jazz-Punk colossals', this music is actually pretty hard to label. Listen to some of the music on The Cravats website and decide what genre you want to put it in. This long awaited compilation brilliantly captures The Cravats at their quirky and original best. Favourites of John Peel, Jello Biafra, and Steve Albini, the Cravats never gained the recognition they deserved, putting out a couple of wonderful albums and a series of fantastic singles. This double CD contains 32 songs and nearly two hours of music. Every song is a mini-masterpiece. Buy this, you will not regret it.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hidden Gem,
By Paul G (Hampshire) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Land of the Giants (Audio CD)
Having lived in Redditch for many years in the 1970s and 1980s I knew The Cravats reasonably well. I had a vinyl copy of their first album and a couple fo singles. Unfortunately I "lost" the album but this compilation CD more than makes up for it. I have to confess that I had not listened to the band for more than 20 years but this is a real breath of fresh air. There are a couple of interesting omissions (the excellent "Burning Bridges") but there was actually a lot of their later stuff that I was not familiar with. It takes a couple of listens to get your head into it but it is the aural equivalent of watching the film Eraserhead - quite dark, brooding, menacing with quite a lot of humour too. And you're not quite sure what's going on.....
The bass sound is reminiscent of the Stranglers although musically Devo and a range of other diverse influences are obviously at play. This is a great CD and a real hidden gem. You casn see why the late John Peel was such a fan. Mind you, I'm not sure that he would have envisaged The Shend turning up on East Enders.....another Surreal/ Dadaist masterstorke perhaps?
4.0 out of 5 stars
The Very Thing,
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This review is from: The Land of the Giants (Audio CD)
Hard to describe this, 80's english eccentrics, maybe? Enjoyable obscurism.
Good bass lines from The Shend, mad saxaphone & madder lyrics.
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