Product Info
Limited LP : Clear Vinyl
If The Raincoats' beautifully scrappy self-titled debut seemed to hail from a different territory than most of its post-punk peers, then its follow-up, 1981's Odyshape, was from an entirely different planet. While the first album had employed a traditional guitar/bass/drums set-up bolstered by the plaintive and dissonant violin of Vicky Aspinall, Odyshape added instruments such as balophone, shruti box and kalimba to the band's panoply.
More than the exotic instrumentation, though, it's the extraordinary structures of Odyshape's songs that distinguish it. They don't so much begin and end as ebb and flow in a way that, historically, seems to have bewildered at least as many listeners as it's beguiled.
Tracklist
1 Shouting Out Loud
2 Family Treet
3 Only Loved at Night
4 Dancing in My Head
5 Odyshape
6 And Then It's Ok
7 Baby Song
8 Red Shoes
9 Go Away