(Vinyl Love is a series of posts that quite simply lists, describes, and displays the pieces in my growing vinyl collection. You can bet that each record was given a spin during the drafting of each corresponding post.)
Artist: Lush
Album Title: Spooky
Year released: 1992
Year reissued: 2016
Details: grey vinyl, disc two in limited Origami box set, Record Store Day 2016 release, limited to 2000
The skinny: Last weekend, I started off this series within a series, sharing glimpses of the first piece in the Lush “Origami” box set, their 1990 compilation LP, “Gala“. The focus of this week’s instalment is the influential English shoegaze quartet’s debut album from 1992, “Spooky”. Much like a bunch of the material on last week’s album, this one was produced by Robin Guthrie, guitarist from Cocteau Twins, another highly influential band in the dream pop world, and whose touch obviously informed a lot of Lush’s early days. 4AD chose to press this particular album to grey vinyl, very much in keeping with the feel and beautiful artwork of the album. “Spooky” isn’t my favourite Lush record (though I know many for whom it is), but I really appreciate its sound and mood and it is home to the song below, my introduction to the group and number twelve on my Best tunes of 1992 list.
Standout track: “For love”
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6 replies on “Vinyl love: Lush “Spooky””
Miki and Emma from Lush … (sighs wistfully, looks into the distance).
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Agreed… (I was going to follow this up with how I always thought they were more than just pretty faces but I’m in a mood to just leave it at that tonight.) … yes.
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They were great, really spiky and interesting in interviews too. I like some of their stuff, some gets a bit shogazey for me.
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Haha. Never too shoegazey for my tastes. I know a lot of people like Gala and Spooky but it was the next one that I really loved, the transition album.
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[…] this as at all the same band that had us dreaming colours on “Gala” and “Spooky“. Sure, there was some ethereal sounds on “Lovelife” but the guitar driven pop […]
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