Singles Album-Full
It's such a good job some nice people at a record company sent me out The Longcut's album. It's a really nice album but we're on track four and we haven't encountered a song we don't already own. At the cost of a tenner in HMV this album would've been ten tracks long with seven being ones we already have. Vitamin C, A Quiet Life and Transition were all singles, A Last Act Of Desperate Men was a b-side, Gravity In Crisis was a free download from the website, Holy Funk was on a HMV Playlist CD and Spires was on a High Voltage compilation EP.
I don't know how rare it is for someone to have all of those. The Longcut have been around a while now on the back of one release (Transition) so by the time A Quiet Lfie came out there would've been enough interest for people to buy into it, which means even a not particularly dedicated fan could've picked up the High Voltage compilation (that probably still hasn't sold out now), the HMV Playlist was released the month before the album, Gravity In Crisis was online for a fair while and viral'd out to people in a fair few ways and Vitamin C was the most recent single.
A good album, certainly, but a bit of a harsh one for dedicated fans to have to shell out for. I hope others are watching and learning. Editors had about ten songs out before their album and still managed to make a fair portion of it new material. ¡Forward, Russia! didn't have so much on release but put even less of it on the album. Just a heads up to the likes of This Et Al and even iLiKETRAiNS (has their mini-album freed them up for all new material on the album or will it overlap?). This Et Al especially, who have, like, thirteen different songs on my computer alone and yet no album due until, what, next year? Re-recording songs is all well and good but it's new material the kids want on an album.
I don't know how rare it is for someone to have all of those. The Longcut have been around a while now on the back of one release (Transition) so by the time A Quiet Lfie came out there would've been enough interest for people to buy into it, which means even a not particularly dedicated fan could've picked up the High Voltage compilation (that probably still hasn't sold out now), the HMV Playlist was released the month before the album, Gravity In Crisis was online for a fair while and viral'd out to people in a fair few ways and Vitamin C was the most recent single.
A good album, certainly, but a bit of a harsh one for dedicated fans to have to shell out for. I hope others are watching and learning. Editors had about ten songs out before their album and still managed to make a fair portion of it new material. ¡Forward, Russia! didn't have so much on release but put even less of it on the album. Just a heads up to the likes of This Et Al and even iLiKETRAiNS (has their mini-album freed them up for all new material on the album or will it overlap?). This Et Al especially, who have, like, thirteen different songs on my computer alone and yet no album due until, what, next year? Re-recording songs is all well and good but it's new material the kids want on an album.