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Anthony Moore - Home of the Demo (2024) [Hi-Res]

Anthony Moore - Home of the Demo (2024) [Hi-Res]

BAND/ARTIST: Anthony Moore

  • Title: Home of the Demo
  • Year Of Release: 2024
  • Label: Drag City
  • Genre: avant-pop, experimental
  • Quality: FLAC 24-Bit/48 kHz; 16-Bit/44.1 kHz; MP3 320 kbps
  • Total Time: 00:39:55
  • Total Size: 92; 273; 509 mb
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Of all the working musicians in Britain in the late '70s and early '80s, Anthony Moore was likely pretty far down on the list of potential contributors to Pink Floyd's late-era, stadium-sized output. After all, not only was Moore best known—if he was known at all—for being a founding member of the arch, leftist art-pop group Slapp Happy, but his commercial prospects were so dim that his longtime label, Virgin, declined to release his 1976 album Out, even though it had already made it to the test-pressing stage. By the time he was taping the home recordings collected on Home of the Demo (roughly 1979-1984), Moore concluded he was better off releasing his own albums (as he did with 1979's Flying Doesn't Help) or working with scrappy independent labels (1981's World Service was released on Do It Records, also home to the first bondage/post-punk iteration of Adam & the Ants). And yet, he maintained his ability to craft appealing—if thoroughly individualistic—pop-rock confections, as well to nurture his connections to those early '70s art-rock associates. Which explains how one of the spare, synth-and-drum-machine pieces here—"Earthbound Misfit"—found its way onto the pop charts in the form of Pink Floyd's "Learning to Fly." The chorus is fully formed but framed by a much more arid and modern arrangement that owes a considerable debt to the new wave melodrama of the era. Nonetheless, David Gilmour easily recognized the strength of his old friend's material and shaped it into something more suitably Floyd-ian. While the historical notability of "Earthbound Misfit" alone warrants attention, it's also a remarkable-enough song on its own. Likewise, much of the rest of the material is quite strong, if (obviously) unfinished. Moore's cockeyed lyrical takes ("Me and Neil Diamond," "Lucia Still Alive") are as interesting as his arrangement choices (the thudding synth-bass of "One World" shouldn't work with glistening percussion and soulfully anguished singing, but it does), and on some cuts like "Midnight Sun," he crafts pieces that are far more elegant and emotional than their home-demo origins would presume. © Jason Ferguson

Tracklist:
1 The Ballad of Sarah Bellum
2 One World
3 Me and Neil Diamond
4 A Different Lie
5 Judy, Judy
6 Lucia Still Alive
7 Midnight Sun
8 Coralie
9 Earthbound Misfit
10 Cold Love

Year 2024 | Pop | Alternative | FLAC / APE | Mp3 | HD & Vinyl

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