Lowlife - Eternity Road: Reflections of Lowlife 85–95
Lowlife - Eternity Road: Reflections of Lowlife 85–95 Lowlife
5CD box set collecting all five studio albums released by cult Scottish post-punk and dream-pop band Lowlife
LTM presents Eternity Road, a 5CD box set collecting all five studio albums released by cult Scottish post-punk and dream-pop band Lowlife, featuring former Cocteau Twins bassist Will Heggie.
Lowlife formed in Grangemouth in 1985 when Heggie joined forces with former Dead Neighbours members Craig Lorentsen, Grant McDowell and Stuart Everest. Their atmospheric and moody soundscapes drew comparisons to Joy Division, New Order, The Comsat Angels and, in later years, artists such as Interpol and Radiohead.
Disc one combines the band’s six-track debut mini-album Rain (1985) with their first full-length album Permanent Sleep, released the following year. Disc two features sophomore album Diminuendo (1987) alongside seven bonus tracks sourced from non-album singles and EPs.
Discs three and four contain the albums Godhead (1989) and San Antorium (1991), each supplemented by half of the rare demo collection Black Sessions. Disc five concludes the set with the band’s final studio album, Gush, originally issued in 1995.
All recordings have been digitally remastered. The accompanying booklet includes a band biography written by journalist and former manager Brian Guthrie, alongside photographs and artwork.
Track List
2. As It Happens
3. Mother Tongue
4. Wild Swan
5. Permanent Sleep
6. A Year Past July
7. The Betting and Gaming Act 1964
8. Do We Party?
9. Sometime: Something
10. Reflections of l
11. Gallery of Shame
12. Sense of Fondness
13. Hail Ye
14. Again and Again
15. From Side to Side (version)
2. Big Uncle Ugliness
3. Ragged Rise to Tumbledown
4. From Side to Side 5. Off Pale Yellow
6. Tongue Tied and Twisted
7. Licking One's Wounds
8. Wonders Will Never Cease
9. Given to Dreaming
10. Hollow Gut
11. Permanent Sleep (Steel Mix)
12. Eternity Road (12" version)
13. Swing
14. Colours Blue 15. Ramafied
2. Where I Lay, I'll Lie
3. Marjory's Dream
4. I Don't Talk To Me
5. Drowning Leaves
6. Bittersweet
7. River of Woe
8. I, the Cheated 9. Missing the Kick
10. Forever Filthy
11. Neverending Shroud
12. The Beggar's Burning Bush (demo)
13. Moved to Tears (demo)
14. Acrid Tongue (demo)
15. River of Woe (demo)
16. Where I Lay, I'll Lie (demo)
2. Inside In
3. My Mother's Fatherly Father
4. Big Fat Funky Whale
5. Good As It Gets
6. Suddenly Violently Random
7. June Wilson
8. Give Up Giving Up
9. Bathe
10. As Old As New
11. Missing the Kick (demo)
12. Bittersweet (demo)
13. Forever Filthy (demo)
14. Neverending Shroud (demo)
15. We the Cheated (demo)
2. Kiss Me Kick
3. Former Compadre
4. Truth In Needles
5. Tocopherol
6. Loaded, Primed and Pulled
7. Wicked Papa Tantalus
8. Patricide
9. Swell