Pre-order of Tracks From the Attic. You get 1 track now (streaming via the free Bandcamp app and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the complete album the moment it’s released.
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releases May 3, 2024
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
FIRST TIME ON CD! - Triple Album triple CD version presenting featuring 34 songs in one package. Packaged in a numbered hand-letterpress printed oversized CD pocket folio with letterpress-printed glassine inner sleeves for the CDs, two folding inserts and an outer OBI wrap.
Includes digital pre-order of Tracks From the Attic.
You get 1 track now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
shipping out on or around May 3, 2024
$30USDor more
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
LIMITED, NUMBERED EDITION OF 850 COPIES ON BROWN KRAFT VINYL! - Triple Album triple LP version presenting featuring 34 songs in one package. Packaged in a numbered hand-letterpress printed die cut LP jacket with letterpress-printed inner sleeves for the LPs, a perforated insert, a postcard with digital download code for the full album and an outer OBI wrap. Also includes as a bonus a set of 3 CDs of the full triple album mounted on a letterpress-printed LP-sized card.
Includes digital pre-order of Tracks From the Attic.
You get 1 track now
(streaming via the free Bandcamp app
and also available as a high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more), plus the
complete album the moment it’s released.
Attics have always exerted an irresistible allure on David J’s imagination. They can unveil luminous jewels that time and dust have rendered all but lost. With Tracks From the Attic, the Bauhaus and Love and Rockets co-founder invites us to join him and climb up the ladder.
A most fascinating journey ensues: we’re looking through boxes of tapes, getting reacquainted with an artist we’ve known for a long time—yet, the intimate songs he recorded in solitude over three decades reveal new sides to him. Even while busy with his two legendary groups, David J was bursting with songs; this is a thrilling selection of recordings he made between 1984 and 2004, some on the road and most at home, with only the help of his Muse, a recorder and a lit candle.
Like all good attic finds, these songs were committed to tape and almost forgotten—it wasn’t until a fan-cum-friend suggested he’d offer his digitizing skills that David thought about revisiting them again. All, except for deep cut ‘This Town’, had never previously been heard. The fact that most of these tunes did not end up becoming beloved classics (something that, once you hit play, your ears will hardly come to terms with) is but a sign of David J’s ever prolific creative state. Mostly composed on acoustic guitar, they will offer unexpected revelations to long-time fans, as they bring to light facets of his musical self that could not be fully expressed in a band setting.
It is indeed fascinating to follow the evolution of David J’s art with songs through the decades, from the observational lyrical montages of the early days to a later, confident embrace of the deeply personal. At the same time, Tracks From the Attic can also be seen as a striking introduction for newcomers—it does feel like meeting one of the great British singer-songwriters for the first time. ‘Oh No! Not Another Songwriter!’, one of the triple album set’s highlights cheekily cries out. Well, this set is evidence that, this is not just any songwriter…
supported by 16 fans who also own “Tracks From the Attic”
Ahhh… the universal sound of 1980s misfit youth, still keeping us company after all these years. Fantastic versions here. Now, will he still rock the miniskirt during encores? marc_ian
Recorded on the Grecian isle of Hydra, this is blissed-out psych pop with stacked falsetto harmonies and luscious arrangements. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 9, 2023
Two dozen 12-string acoustic improvisations that feel undeniably haunting, like lost transmissions from ancient Appalachia, rediscovered. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 17, 2022
supported by 15 fans who also own “Tracks From the Attic”
I bought the 12 inch single for Bela Lugosi’s Dead at Fred’s records in St. John’s, Newfoundland in the eighties and it remained a treasured item in my collection until it was lost, left behind, stolen, loaned out, whatever. I accepted that that item was lost to time and likely irreplaceable. Hence my utter shock to see that I will once again hear this evocative masterwork on vinyl along with an extra three tracks. I recall Boys was included on the B-side of that long list single. Thank you! skritti