Gruff Rhys & Rough Trade Records are pleased to announce ‘(Don’t) Welcome The Plague As A Blessing / The Babelsberg Basement Files’ will be released on split black & white vinyl, limited to 1700 copies worldwide and released on August 29th, 2020 for Record Store Day.
A companion piece to Gruff’s 2018 album ‘Babelsberg’, this release showcases the record in its original, pre-orchestrated form and was largely recorded in three days by the band playing together in a soon-to-be demolished studio in Bristol.
To preview the release Gruff has today shared a single from the album ‘Negative Vibes’, alongside the brilliant computer game inspired video for the track.
Gruff explains the new version “I love the finished album (Babelsberg) and Stephen McNeff’s arrangements and Samur Khouja’s mix – this is a companion piece that unearths the live band that played on everything and it’s how we toured the album mostly – so it’s great to have a document of that. The Babelsberg band – Kliph / Steve / Osian are ridiculously talented musicians – they could step into any Wrecking Crew”.
He goes on to add “I must point out that these records were pressed in Autumn 2019 in preparation for an April RSD 2020 – I would have never put plague in the title if I knew there was a pandemic on the way. I wouldn’t want to remind people of their suffering. Although I think it’s scandalous how the horrific miss-handling of the pandemic is not viewed as an utter scandal in the UK at least.”
tracklisting
- Frontier Man
- The Club
- Oh Dear!
- Limited Edition Heart
- Take That Call
- Drones in the City
- Negative Vibes
- Same Old Song
- Architecture of Amnesia
10.Selfies in the Sunset
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