All I remember I loved one album of the Raincoats, and I did only have one. But though the covers are simply unforgettable, I‘m not sure which one it was. Over the years I lost the album, but still today I know that I would love the music all over again. Like „Colossal Yourh“. Like the first album of the Violent Femmes. Was it even the Raincoats record where Robert (as it googled me) played drums on one track or whatever?
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„It’s a good thing Jenn Pelly’s 33 ⅓ book about the Raincoats’ first album is so compact, because after tearing through it in 48 hours, I carried it around with me for weeks. I reread passages while listening to the record on the train, in bars, and curled up in bed with a cup of tea, hearing something new every time. She writes: „Each instrument is a character, singing. The melodic base, a trickster; the scratchy violin, a dramatist. The serrated noise guitar is lawless. The wandering drums dance.”
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„Le Chat qui Pêche,
Rue de la Huchette.
Paris at night,
and the strains of a ghost saxophone.“(Robert Wyatt, Old Europe)