From Squats To Lots The Agony And XTC Of Low Life [VINYL]

Description: Home About Us Postage & Payment Returns Contact Add The Pom Shop to your Favorites and receive our email newsletters about new items and special promotions. General Interest From Squats To Lots: The Agony And XTC Of Low Life [VINYL] LP edition comes on transparent lime coloured vinyl and is housed in a glossy gatefold sleeve with poster and 16 page lyric booklet. CD edition contains 16 page lyric booklet. THE BAND: Low Life are a rock band from Sydney, Australia. THE RECORD: Low Lifes 3rd LP is called From Squats to Lots: The Agony and the XTC of Low Life. NOTES ON HOW TO LISTEN TO AGONY AND XTC OF LOW LIFE: 1. Some records hit you with an instant impression of timeless brilliance, and Low Lifes Dogging is one of those records, what the wise call an instant classic. 2. From Squats to Lots: The Agony and the XTC of Low Life is more like their second album Downer Edn (read Edition), a little more withdrawn, a little more textured. Complex. Rich. Which is to say: youre going to need some time with it. 3. Some show, some grow. Low Life have done both. This one is a grower. Spend some time with this one. Its got that nuanced flavour. Dont guzzle. Sip. Savour. 4. Sip it, and sense the recurring brilliance of Mitch Tolmans lyrics, exploring the usual territory of gutter life, lad life, punk life, low life. The dirge. Disgust and shame in white Australia. Council housing, bills piled to the neck, substance abuse and rehabilitation, the fallen lads and lasses who stood too close to the flame, loss and loneliness, from squats to lots. Un-Australian gutter symphony. 5. There is a celebration of resilience and thats a central theme of this record and a time like ours needs a record like Agony & XTC. Low times are coming through, but if youre low they wont get to you. 6. Iggy Pops Bowie produced studio rock masterpieces The Idiot and Lust For Life are important reference points to the 3rd album sounds of Low Life. Here comes success! 7. The Agony and Ecstasy is a 1985 novel by Irving Stone about the life of Italian Renaissance painter Michelangelo. Stone wrote another novel about the single eared painter Vincent Van Gogh called Lust For Life. This synchronicity hit me. 8. Iggy and the Stooges are a pretty safe reference for Low Life (and all good rock music). Iggy and the Stooges are a low lifes Michelangelo, but solo Iggy like Lust for Life is a better reference for this particular incarnation of Low Life, which is to say they are studio rock albums. 9. Bowie later referred to this period of his life as profoundly nihilistic. But Iggy looked at it as the period of his life that saved him from an early grave. This confrontation is Low life lore. 10. Lets stick to this, because theres something about this era of Bowie that makes sense with Low Lifes new album, particularly Low. One should never miss the Low in our new album from Low Life. Producer and studio boss Mickey Grossman has the ear for the Low, and he has carved out a little statue of David right here. 11. Mickeys ears are recording, mixing and producing the best of Sydney, most notably the Oily Boys Cro Memory Grin. A great companion record to this one. Use Agony & XTC AFTER Oily Boys. Not on an empty stomach, and dont try to operate heavy machinery (bobcat, bulldozer etc). 12. The relationship between Low Life and Sydney hardcore should not be understated, but it also shouldnt guide how to listen to Agony & XTC. This is not austere, disciplined music. 13. Think, like, if Poison Idea were given the kind of studio time and budget as Happy Mondays. You wouldnt play it to a teenager. Its not for children. Shipping Shipping is free for all customers in Australia. 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