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Remastered edition of the first two albums by Manchester group Spherical Objects, originally released on Object Music in 1978 and 1979. Liner notes include new contributions from Steve Solamar.
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There's a true story sometimes retold by Paul Morley, he'd wrote a piece on three upcoming Manchester bands - The Passage, Spherical Objects and Joy Division, the piece was all but completed and he wanted to make Spherical Objects the main focus of the article, here my memory is a bit fuzzy, but for whatever reason and late in the day they decided to make Joy Division the lead band in the article. What does that tell us? Only that Spherical Objects were a very good band.
The other thing people should know about Spherical Objects is that they sound like no other band, they have all the main component parts, bass, guitar and an organ, but the way they come together stands apart, the unique vocal of singer/songwriter Steve Solamar plays a large part in that. The songs are well crafted, often about relationships but not love songs.
The product - here you are getting the SO's first two LPs Past and Parcel and Eliptical Optimism. I've owned Past and Parcel since about 1980 and know the songs well, it's been a regular visitor to my turntable over the years and today over 30 years on since it was first released it still sounds fresh and contemporary. I'm less familiar with the second LP contained here - Eliptical Optimism sees a slight change in sound and production style, but the songs stand up well and deserve to be heard, although it has to be said that Past and Parcel is superior, it's sharper and punchier.
Why did they never recieve wider acclaim back in the late 70s? They never really played live shows, there product wasn't that well distributed, I never ever saw a copy of elliptical optimism in the shops or I'd have bought it, and they never seemed to be big self promoters, I also think that John Peel very rarely played anything by SO. However above all else I suspect they arrived a bit too soon, if they'd arrived in 1980 or 1981 I suspect they'd have been more warmly recieved by an audience that had moved on from punk and was receptive to music that went beyond the confines of the three chord thrash, there was a big change in that two or three year spell.
Five stars from me then, 30+ years on I still love the music and this well put together CD with comprehensive band history in the line notes represents great value containing as it does the two first SO lps.
The other thing people should know about Spherical Objects is that they sound like no other band, they have all the main component parts, bass, guitar and an organ, but the way they come together stands apart, the unique vocal of singer/songwriter Steve Solamar plays a large part in that. The songs are well crafted, often about relationships but not love songs.
The product - here you are getting the SO's first two LPs Past and Parcel and Eliptical Optimism. I've owned Past and Parcel since about 1980 and know the songs well, it's been a regular visitor to my turntable over the years and today over 30 years on since it was first released it still sounds fresh and contemporary. I'm less familiar with the second LP contained here - Eliptical Optimism sees a slight change in sound and production style, but the songs stand up well and deserve to be heard, although it has to be said that Past and Parcel is superior, it's sharper and punchier.
Why did they never recieve wider acclaim back in the late 70s? They never really played live shows, there product wasn't that well distributed, I never ever saw a copy of elliptical optimism in the shops or I'd have bought it, and they never seemed to be big self promoters, I also think that John Peel very rarely played anything by SO. However above all else I suspect they arrived a bit too soon, if they'd arrived in 1980 or 1981 I suspect they'd have been more warmly recieved by an audience that had moved on from punk and was receptive to music that went beyond the confines of the three chord thrash, there was a big change in that two or three year spell.
Five stars from me then, 30+ years on I still love the music and this well put together CD with comprehensive band history in the line notes represents great value containing as it does the two first SO lps.
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