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A 5CD box set, Eternity Road contains all 5 studio albums released by Lowlife, the cult Scottish post-punk/dreampop band featuring former Cocteau Twins bassist Will Heggie.
The band's atmospheric, moody soundscapes were often compared to Joy Division, New Order, The Comsat Angels, and more recently shoegaze, Interpol and Radiohead.
Disc 1 combines debut 6 track mini album Rain (1985) with the band’s first LP, Permanent Sleep (1986). Disc 2 combines sophomore album Diminuendo (1987) with 7 bonus tracks drawn from non-album singles and EPs. Discs 3 and 4 feature the albums Godhead (1989) and San Antorium (1991), each of these adding one-half of rare demo set Black Sessions. Disc 5 contains the band's final album Gush, issued in 1995.
All tracks have been remastered. The booklet includes a band biography by journalist and former manager Brian Guthrie, along with photographs and artwork.
Tracklist
CD1: PERMANENT SLEEP + RAIN (1986)
1. Coward's Way
2. As It Happens
3. Mother Tongue
4. Wild Swan
5. Permanent Sleep
6. A Year Past July
7. The Betting and Gaming Act 1964
8. Do We Party?
9. Sometime: Something
10. Reflections of I
11. Gallery of Shame
12. Sense of Fondness
13. Hail Ye
14. Again and Again
15. From Side to Side (version)
CD2: DIMINUENDO + SINGLES (1987)
1. A Sullen Sky
2. Big Uncle Ugliness
3. Ragged Rise to Tumbledown
4. From Side to Side
5. Off Pale Yellow
6. Tongue Tied and Twisted
7. Licking One's Wounds
8. Wonders Will Never Cease
9. Given to Dreaming
10. Hollow Gut
11. Permanent Sleep (Steel Mix)
12. Eternity Road (12" version)
13. Swing
14. Colours Blue
15. Ramafied
CD3: GODHEAD + THE BLACK ALBUM PT. 1 (1989)
1. In Thankful Hands
2. Where I Lay, I'll Lie
3. Marjory's Dream
4. I Don't Talk To Me
5. Drowning Leaves
6. Bittersweet
7. River of Woe
8. I, the Cheated
9. Missing the Kick
10. Forever Filthy
11. Neverending Shroud
12. The Beggar's Burning Bush (demo)
13. Moved to Tears (demo)
14. Acrid Tongue (demo)
15. River of Woe (demo)
16. Where I Lay, I'll Lie (demo)
CD4: SAN ANTORIUM + THE BLACK ALBUM PT. 2 (1991)
1. Jaw
2. Inside In
3. My Mother's Fatherly Father
4. Big Fat Funky Whale
5. Good As It Gets
6. Suddenly Violently Random
7. June Wilson
8. Give Up Giving Up
9. Bathe
10. As Old As New
11. Missing the Kick (demo)
12. Bittersweet (demo)
13. Forever Filthy (demo)
14. Neverending Shroud (demo)
15. We the Cheated (demo)
CD5: GUSH (1995)
1. Bleach
2. Kiss Me Kick
3. Former Compadre
4. Truth In Needles
5. Tocopherol
6. Loaded, Primed and Pulled
7. Wicked Papa Tantalus
8. Patricide
9. Swell