Bright and Guilty Wolfhounds, The SKU: OPT4048 Barcode: 5065010051164 34.00 £34.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Optic Nerve Released Date: 1st July 2022 Buying Format: 2LP Coloured Vinyl Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Deluxe reissue of their 1989 sophomore album pressed on pale blue colour vinyl. Presented in a gloss laminated gatefold sleeve, which features the original LP plus a bonus disc with all the A and B sides, some compilation tracks and an outtake, plus a 12-page booklet containing previously unpublished lyrics and tons of contemporary reviews and photos. Completely remastered for your listening pleasure. In 1989, while the musical world was fêting serial-killer worshipping noise bands, white boys with dreadlocks and the first glimmers of techno, one band – The Wolfhounds – was describing the times and the country exactly as they were. Or at least as they saw it. Well, not exactly. The privations of finding enough money to live on, a semi-permanent roof over your head and perhaps the hope of real change were all there in the lyrics along with the multitudinous shards of ideas in the music, both raging and reflective – but there was also a sense of magical realism and authentic personal circumstance imbued in it all. Formed as a frantic noisy fusion of sixties garage and independent post-punk in Romford in 1984, by 1986 it was the band’s misfortunate to be corralled with the jangly and quirky bands of the era-defining C86 tape, given away free with the NME that year. The frustration of being lumped with the lumpen was already spilling over into a heightened creativity that would see the band release three LPs in 18 months, the first and perhaps most fully realised of which was Bright & Guilty. The band’s sense of melody saw three singles taken off it, and all received plentiful radio play that resulted in enthusiastic audience responses when the band toured with My Bloody Valentine and the House of Love shortly after the LP came out. This renewed attention also saw them being threatened with legal action by the food company satirically targeted by one of the singles – Happy Shopper. The band’s magpie listening habits also saw the first glimmers of an interest in sampling with the track Cottonmouth, hip hop in the drum rhythms of Invisible People and Son of Nothing, discordant post- hardcore in Non-specific Song and even percussive hints of Tom Waits’ Rain Dogs in Charterhouse. The album’s lyrical themes have sustained the relevance of these 30-something year-old songs. The dictatorship of the class system over the economy is touched on in Charterhouse, the unfairness of housing policy in Rent Act and Red Tape Red Light, the desperation of not having enough money to even seek employment in Useless Second Cousin. But there is contemplation and mystery, too: Rope Swing’s nostalgia for pre-teen childhood, Invisible People’s detailing of intangible weaknesses. Of all their peers, The Wolfhounds post-C86 output stands up straight and proud, and you’ll find echoes of their sound in Fontaines DC, Idles and many others – but not performed with the brashness, vigour and uniqueness of the originals. Artist Wolfhounds, The Genre Rock And Pop Label Optic Nerve Buying Options 2LP Coloured Vinyl Format 2LP , Coloured Vinyl Condition New Country UK Track Listings Non- Specific Song Charterhouse Happy Shopper Useless Second Cousin Ex- Cable Street Tomorrow Attacking Son Of Nothing Ropeswing Rent Act Invisible People A Mess Of Paradise No Soap In A Dirty War Red Tape Red Light Natural Disasters Cottonmouth Torture Died The Small Death A Mess Of Paradise (Scarf Demo) I’m Not Like Everybody Else Set Me Free Second Son Everybody Recycle Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Wolfhounds, The and more from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View Wolfhounds, The Electric Music Rock And Pop | A Turntable Friend | 1LP Released 3rd July 2020 £14.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Wolfhounds, The Electric Music £14.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: A Turntable Friend SKU: TURN76LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 3rd July 2020 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View 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