You Have Been Watching

Mother Earth

SKU: AJXLP581L

Barcode: 0676499058169

22.00 £22.00
  • Genre: Rock And Pop
  • Label: Acid Jazz
  • Released Date: 28th May 2021
  • Buying Format:
    1LP Coloured Vinyl Gatefold Sleeve

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Band splits, abortive sessions, abandoned songs and a label under siege all contributed to the triumph that was Mother Earth’s third album, ‘You Have Been Watching’.

Never the most cohesive of units, the 1994 classic ‘People Tree’ had been hailed but its two-year recording process had seen the band lose two members and almost sink the record label, as it was recorded in expensive studios throughout the UK.

Its follow up was meant to be recorded quickly as an antidote but the first sessions – without a producer – delivered nothing, after which band frontman Matt Deighton went off and recorded his solo album with his new wife. It could have been the end of Mother Earth.

Instead, refreshed from the break, they reconvened at Acid Jazz studios and finished the album in a couple of weeks. Mixing Stax soul, dub and space rock, it was released in the late summer to great success.

Tracks such as ‘(Never Gonna Get) To War!’, ‘Compare Yourself’ and ‘Get Along’ quickly became live favourites, whilst ‘Poster’ and ‘Hold On To Your Head’ show some of Deighton’s most sensitive writing.

Acid Jazz are reissuing the album in a facsimile of the original gatefold sleeve on lilac vinyl that matches the artwork.

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Track Listings

  1. (Never Gonna Get) To War!
  2. Get Along
  3. Wham Bam Thank You Mam
  4. Freethinker
  5. Non Corporealness
  6. Very Together
  7. Compare Yourself
  8. Hold On To Your Head
  9. Poster
  10. The Desired Effect
  11. The Life Eternity

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