Swoon (Vinyl LP) Electronic

Swoon (Vinyl LP) ElectronicSwoon, Prefab Sprout's debut album shows the band and songwriter singer Paddy McAloon in their purest state, before outside hands and Top 20 chart prospects streamlined their approach. Swoon is a highly original record, melding various styles into one unique vision, resulting in a sophisticated sound the band could claim as its own. It has been sited as a strange fusion of Aztec Camera and Steely Dan, which makes sense, but ultimately Swoon proves too

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with melodies centered on Eastern pentatonic scales

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has unexpectedly emerged as a singular (if not undeniably

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not distortion and chaos

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it's simply playing and recording the songs in one take

starting a relationship with the band that has endured until today

The fourteen tracks on the LP contains five Graham originals plus a mixture of rearranged popular songs

A ghost's whistle weaves itself around a pulsing single note on 'Lonesome Infidel'