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July 22, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Hiroshi Yoshimura: GREEN [Reissue]

Hiroshi Yoshimura GREEN [Reissue] Light In The Attic Hiroshi Yoshimura died of cancer in 2003. He was a Japanese musician, historian, designer and artist; a philosopher of and for the soul in fact – for this polymath so often worked at the intersection of these various trades, playing them equally to create installation pieces and […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Ambient, Atmospheric, Environmental, Green, GREEN [Reissue], Hiroshi Yoshimura, Hiroshi Yoshimura: GREEN [Reissue], Instrumental, Japanese, Light In The Attic, Minimalist, Reissue, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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July 3, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 392

Gimmer Nicholson, Christopher Idylls (1968/2016) A good story, this – one of those ones where you have to thank the reissue labels – and LightInTheAttic usually gets it right. I bought this on a whim really – having heard about it. The recording took place in the late 1960s, it was eventually issued years later, […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1968, 2016), Christopher Idylls, Gimmer Nicholson, Light In The Attic, LightInTheAttic, LP, Millennial Harbinger, Record, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 392, Vinyl ·

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May 31, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Link Wray: Link Wray [Reissue]

Link Wray Link Wray Future Days Recordings Ask most people about Link Wray and they’ll reference his surf-guitar/heavy-metal prototype instrumental, Rumble; it rode back in on a wave of appreciation post-Pulp Fiction but had been relegated alongside other late 50s/early 60s guitar-twanging gunslingers like Duane Eddy and Dick Dale.
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 1971, Album Review, Future Days Recordings, Guitar, Karl Blau, Light In The Attic, LightInTheAttic, Link Wray, Link Wray: Link Wray [Reissue], Reissue, Roots, Rumble, Skip Spence, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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August 9, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

Betty Davis: The Columbia Years 1968-69

Betty Davis The Columbia Years 1968-69 LightInTheAttic It’s fitting that LightInTheAttic should shine the light on these fabled Betty Davis sessions – via this comprehensive round-up with stellar liner notes, as is the way with LightInTheAttic releases, and of course the good oil being the music – since it was the reissue label which represented […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Betty Davis, Billy Cox, Funk, Herbie Hancock, Jimi Hendrix, John McLaughlin, Light In The Attic, LightInTheAttic, Miles Davis, Mitch Mitchell, Nasty Gal, Reissue, Soul, Ted Macero, The Columbia Years, The Columbia Years 1968-69 ·

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March 12, 2016 by Simon Sweetman

The City: Now That Everything’s Been Said

The City Now That Everything’s Been Said LightInTheAttic Here’s a wonderful reissue from the dependable LightInTheAttic label – it’s the first time too that The City’s Now That Everything’s Been Said has been reissued for vinyl. This was a band fronted by Carole King and it’s essentially her “lost” or middle years. She’d written the […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Blood Sweat and Tears, Brill Building, Carole King, Charles Larkey, Danny Kortchmar, Gerry Goffin, Jim Gordon, Light In The Attic, LightInTheAttic, Lou Adler, Now That Everything's Been Said, Pop, Reissue, Songwriting, Tapestry, The Byrds, The City, The Monkees, Wrecking Crew ·

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October 25, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 804

Donnie and Joe Emerson, Dreamin’ Wild (1979) Good times for sure – I loved the story around this as much as I loved the music – but I really did dig this music, just as soon as I heard it. Good stuff. Not even the endorsement of Ariel Pink could throw me. Good, good times […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1979, Ariel Pink, Baby, Blog On The Tracks, Donnie, Donnie and Joe Emerson, Donnie Emerson, Dreamin' Wild, Good Time, Joe, Joe Emerson, Light In The Attic, LightInTheAttic, LP, Reissue, The Vinyl Countdown # 804, Vinyl ·

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October 16, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Lewis Baloue: Romantic Times

Lewis Baloue Romantic Times Light In The Attic One of the surprise reissues of this year was Lewis’ L’Amour – the charming back-story didn’t hurt the record either. Since the album was put (back) out into the world – and kinda lapped up this time – the Light In The Attic crew even managed to […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, L'Amour, Lewis, Lewis Baloue, Light In The Attic, Reissue, Romantic Times ·

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September 4, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Lewis: L’Amour

Lewis L’Amour Light In The Attic Musically it’s so simple – sparse, proud, strange – a few synth lines stab in and around some late-night piano fumbling, a soft coo of a voice. No drums. No bass. It’s perfect at midnight or 3am or 6am – and it’s so perfect here, now, some 30 years […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 1983, 2014, Album Review, Blue Nile, John Martyn, L'Amour, Lewis, Light In The Attic, Paul Buchanan, Randall Wulff, Reissue ·

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August 6, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

V/A: Country Funk Volume II – 1967-1974

Various Artists: Country Funk Volume II – 1967-1974 Light In The Attic The first volume – one of Light In The Attic’s masterstrokes in the compiling/reissuing game – was the introduction of a genre that might have seemed to some like a Buzzfeed–styled click-bait headline; a fake genre you just had to hear – even […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Bill Wilson, Billy Swan, Compilation, Country, Country Funk, Country Funk Volume II 1967-1974, Dolly Parton, Donnie Fritts, Doug Dillard, First Edition, Funk, Gene Clark, Great Speckled Bird, J.J. Cale, Jackie DeShannon, Jim Ford, Kenny Rogers, Light In The Attic, LightInTheAttic Records, Reissue, Shotgun Willie, Thomas Jefferson Kaye, Townes Van Zandt, V/A, Various Artists, Willie Nelson, Willis Alan Ramsey ·

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July 17, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Donnie & Joe Emerson: Still Dreamin’ Wild – The Lost Recordings 1979-81

Donnie & Joe Emerson Still Dreamin’ Wild: The Lost Recordings 1979-81 Light In The Attic The reissue of Donnie and Joe Emerson’s Dreamin’ Wild, replete with wonderful back-story was a revelation – I loved it. Still love it. And the story was bonkers and heart-warming, a father builds a home studio and concert space for […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 1979-81, Album Review, Baby, Donnie and Joe Emerson, Donnie Emerson, Dreamin' Wild, Emersons, Joe Emerson, Light In The Attic, Reissue, Still Dreamin' Wild: The Lost Recordings 1979-81, The Lost Recordings ·

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July 10, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

V/A: Wheedle’s Groove – Volume II: 1972-1987

Various Artists: Wheedle’s Groove: Seattle Funk, Modern Soul & Boogie – Volume II: 1972-1987 Light In The Attic Records There was an earlier volume a decade ago – it sorta started a movement, a resurgence, a doco, tribute acts, DJ sets and it reminded a lot of people of the funk, soul and groove tunes […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Compilation, DJ Supreme La Rock, Funk, Light In The Attic, Modern Soul & Boogie – Volume II: 1972-1987, V/A, Various Artists, Wheedle’s Groove: Seattle Funk ·

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June 2, 2011 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1980

      Bernard Purdie, Lialeh (1973) I’d never heard this album before – I purchased it alongside the Pastor Barrett album, Like A Ship…(Without A Sale). The same label has reissued it (Light In The Attic). But I had heard of Bernard Purdie. I’m such a fan of “Pretty” Purdie that in the mid 90s I bought two […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged "Pretty" Purdie, Bernard Purdie, Hap'nin, King Curtis Live At Fillmore West, Lialeh, Light In The Attic, Vinyl ·

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