Bastard Colin Newman SKU: WM03LP Barcode: 5063176019318 20.00 £20.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Swim Released Date: 26th January 2024 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info It was four years into the swim ~ label’s history before Bastard arrived. Like my previous albums, it was another collaboration – although this time only with my partner in life and crime, Malka Spigel. There was a point in the ’90s when British music journalists basically didn’t get dance music and would refer to it as “facelesstechno bollocks”. It was that very attribute that Malka and I felt most attracted to. In instrumental music, you could be anyone fromanywhere. The only thing that mattered was how good your tunes were. In fact, for the first Immersion album, we pretended to befrom Germany and were photographed in wigs and masks. This had the unexpected result of the album selling more copies in Germany than anywhere else! With Bastard, it took a while to get to the concept, which was essentially this: What if we subverted the whole ‘bloke from Wire’thing and had a Colin Newman album without any actual songs on it? These days, this is not such a big thing, but it was hugelytransgressive at the time. The language of Bastard is house, techno, breakbeat, drum and bass, and doubtless post-rock. The onlysinging is a one-line Malka sample on ‘Turn’. Not only did the album not play by the rules of what would these days be called musicby a ‘heritage’ artist, but it didn’t play by the rules of dance music either. Back then, dance music artists didn’t mix up styles as theydo today. This is one of the reasons the album’s called Bastard. Upon release, Bastard was modestly successful in comparison to the label’s other releases, although widely misunderstood. Thetitle is intentionally multifaceted, referring to several ways in which the album is a misfit – a cuckoo in the nest. But it never meant‘Colin Newman is a bastard’ – even if Malka’s toy finger gesture on the cover tempted fate on that! Malka and I have done more work together on swim ~ – and, of course, there has been plenty of Wire activity after its second hiatus during the 1990s – but I never felt the need to do another solo album. I don’t crave attention and certainly don’t feel I lackways to express myself. In many ways, it’s more creative to collaborate with others. There is joy and beauty in collaboration. And collaborating with Malka has become so effortless that we almost don’t know whodoes what in the work we create. This has led us to throwing open our partnership via Nanocluster events and albums where webuild musical bridges and make partnerships that transcend the art. Maybe that’s the point? Surely, art should be about human connection and diversity of expression? Colin Newman, Brighton, 2023 (edited from album sleeve notes) Artist Colin Newman Genre Rock And Pop Label Swim Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings Sticky May Slowfast (falling down the stairs with a drumkit) Without g-deep Spaced In Spiked The Orange House & the Blue House Turn Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Colin Newman and more from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View Colin Newman Not To Rock And Pop | Sentient Records | 1LP Released 28th October 2016 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Colin Newman Not To £16.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Sentient Records SKU: SS05LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 28th October 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Colin Newman Provisionally Entitled The Singing Fish Rock And Pop | Sentient Records | 1LP Released 28th October 2016 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Colin Newman Provisionally Entitled The Singing Fish £16.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Sentient Records SKU: SS03LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 28th October 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Colin Newman A-Z Rock And Pop | Sentient Records | 1LP Released 28th October 2016 £16.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Colin Newman A-Z £16.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Sentient Records SKU: SS01LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 28th October 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Everly Brothers Hey Doll Baby Rock And Pop | Warner Music | 1LP Released 17th June 2022 £22.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations Everly Brothers Hey Doll Baby £22.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Warner Music SKU: 0603497842636 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 17th June 2022 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View R.E.M. 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