THE RAINCOATS - Odyshape (2026 Repress) - LP - 180g Marble Vinyl Edition THE RAINCOATS

LP - 180 gram 'Marble Vinyl' Edition (2026 Repress), comes with a download code

“Odyshape” the second album by The Raincoats originally released on Rough Trade Records in 1981. Re-mastered from original masters. Odyshape was a radical departure from the band's first album, exploring different musical genres and featuring a diverse range of instruments, such as the Shruti box, Balophone, Shehnai and Kalimba. The band incorporated influences from ethnic field recordings and musicians such as Ornette Coleman, and often swapped instrumental roles to freshen the arrangements. It's a very intimate recording, full of sounds they wisely never tried to recreate again, and vocal takes that are often inflected with a heart-crushing vulnerability.

“It was The Raincoats I related to most. They seemed like ordinary people playing extraordinary music. Music that was natural that made room for cohesion of personalities. They had enough confidence to be vulnerable and to be themselves without having to take on the mantle of male rock and punk rock aggression or the typical female as sex symbol avec irony or sensationalism” - Kim Gordon, Sonic Youth

“We just really loved what The Raincoats were doing, they were a really exciting band. I think the thing that was good about The Raincoats simply was that the tradition that they were playing in was their own and so they had an original voice. You couldn’t ignore them, they were undeniably fascinating, the interplay between the two voices and the sound of the group was something original and that was what was exciting about them”. - Geoff Travis, Rough Trade Records