KIRSTY MACCOLL - Electric Ladyland - 2CD [MAY 2]

2CD - Deluxe 7” gatefold packaging, bonus CD containing alternate mixes, singles and B- sides, 8-page booklet

Wit, liveliness and crackling musical ideas, jumping between global genres with relish – Kirsty MacColl’s third album, Electric Landlady, has all of them.

Travelling the world with her husband, producer Steve Lillywhite, had given her exposure to big bands like the Rolling Stones and Talking Heads, with whom she gladly sang backing vocals. But her friends and voracious appetite for new music is what drove her creativity. Electric Landlady also saw the love of Cuban and Latin American rhythms in her life, which had been fired in her childhood by her brother's record collection. World-renowned artists like percussionist José Mangual Jr, trumpeter Angel Hernandez, timbalero Mark Quinones and bassist Sal Cuevas joined her band, enhancing and enriching her glorious songs with a tropical, sunshine register. 

Many collaborations light up this LP. The defiant country swing of All I Ever Wanted was a result of a writing partnership by post, exchanging tapes with American musician Marshall Crenshaw. He Never Mentioned Love, written with The Pogues’ Jem Finer, is a more mature, wry take on Kirsty’s earlier girl group flavoured pop. The Hardest Word, written with her older brother Hamish, is also about their late father, the renowned folk singer Ewan, with whom she had a tough relationship.

Tracklist: 

CD ONE
1) Walking Down Madison
2) All I Ever Wanted
3) Children Of The Revolution
4) Halloween
5) My Affair
6) Lying Down
7) He Never Mentioned Love
8) We’ll Never Pass This Way Again
9) The Hardest Word
10) Maybe It’s Imaginary
11) My Way Home
12) The One And Only

CD TWO
1) One Good Thing
2) The Hardest Word (Alt Take 3)
3) Walking Down Madison (6AM Ambient Mix)
4) Walking Down Madison (7” Mix)
5) Walking Down Madison (Extended Urban Mix)
6) Walking Down Madison (Ye Olde Originale Mix)
7) Walking Down Madison (Club Mix)
8) Walking Down Madison (Urban Mix)
9) Darling, Let’s Have Another Baby (ft. Billy Bragg)
10) All The Tears That I Cried
11) My Affair (Ladbroke Groove Mix)
12) My Affair (Bass Sexy Mix)
13) My Affair (Olive Groove Mix)
14) My Affair (Single Edit)
15) Don’t Go Near The Water
16) All I Ever Wanted (Re-Recorded Single Version)