THE RAINCOATS - Odyshape (2023 Reissue) - LP - 180g Transparent Clear Vinyl [APR 28]

LP - Limited Edition Repress on 180g Transparent Clear Vinyl. Re-mastered from original masters. Only 500 copies in this pressing. 

Odyshape was the second album by the Raincoats, originally released on Rough Trade records in 1981. Now reissued by the band themselves and 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. 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/punk rock aggression…or the typical female as sex symbol avec irony or sensationalism" - Kim Gordon, Sonic Youth,1993.

"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, February 2009.

Tracklist:

Side A
1. Shouting Out Loud
2 Family Treet
3. Only Loved At Night
4. Dancing In My Head

Side B
1. Ody Shape
2. And Then It's O.K.
3. Baby Song
4. Red Shoes
5. Go Away