Rise

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  5487872CD  £6.00

Label

Hip-O

James

Laid

this manchesterbased band had already been around for 10 years by the time this seminal release hit stores the band had always experimented in the studio and had long wanted to work with brian enoand for laid their wish was granted the full descriptionresults are a combination of crowdpleasing anthems quiet ballads and lullabies all of which benefit greatly from the atmospheric tones of the sparser enoled productionleading off with the spectacularly paranoid slow number 'out to get you' and then moving straight into the upbeat 'sometimes lester piggott' and then seesawing between the two states from there laid mirrors the therapy enriched lives of its creators lead singer tim booth's vision especially shines through in this collection which was the band's first commercially successful record in the us morrissey fans take notebooth is allegedly who morrissey is referring to in the single 'we hate it when our friends become successful' best known on laid is the title track a joyous paean to obsessive love play very loud