Tall Stories & New Religions

by Pete Astor

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1.	Model Village 03:58	buy track
2.	Ladies And Gentlemen 03:38	buy track
3.	Chinese Cadillac 03:04	buy track
4.	The Emperor, The Dealer And The Birthday Boy 03:11	buy track
5.	She Comes From The Rain 03:40	buy track
6.	Nancy True Knot 02:42	buy track
7.	Caesar Boots 03:09	buy track
8.	Head Over Heels 02:44	buy track
9.	Marsh Blues 04:19	buy track
10.	Emblem 03:34	buy track
11.	Disney Queen 03:30	buy track
12.	On Top Above The Driver 02:47	buy track

about

As the fiftieth birthday approaches, you get the sense that your
life is thinning out and will continue to thin out, until it thins out
into nothing. And you sometimes say to yourself: that went a bit
quick. In certain moods, you may want to put it rather more
forcefully. As in: OY!! THAT went a BIT FUCKING QUICK!!!…
then fifty comes and goes, and fifty-one, and fifty-two. And life
thickens out again. Because there is now an enormous and
unsuspected presence within your being, like an undiscovered
continent. This is the past.
– Martin Amis

2024 marks 40 years of Pete Astor making records, a suitable
anniversary point at which to take stock and double back on
songs that first appeared on records by Astor-fronted combos
such as Creation Records trailblazers The Loft and The
Weather Prophets and Matador recording artists The Wisdom
of Harry, as well as selections from solo albums that appeared
on labels such as Danceteria and Static Caravan.

Astor’s motivation for TS&NR, as his extensive notes below
make clear, is manifold. Some songs are effectively reexamined
in the way one might linger over a resonant picture
from a box of old photographs – connecting with the essence
of a younger self. Other songs are newly recast in wiser and
more reflective hues, while others simply demanded
exhumation from wilfully opaque, lo fi non-production. The
songs chosen are not the obvious ones - there’s no "Up the Hill
and Down the Slope" or “Almost Prayed” here - but have been
selected for more interesting, often esoteric, reasons.

Astor is accompanied by an estimable band of co-conspirators,
evolving out of many hours spent playing music together on
records and at shows over the last decade. They are drummer
Ian Button, (Death in Vegas, Papernut Cambridge, Go Kart
Mozart), bassist Andy Lewis (Paul Weller, Soho Radio and
Blow Up DJ), guitarist Wilson Neil Scott (Summerhill, Felt,
Everything But the Girl) and keyboardist/ multi-instrumentalist/
producer Sean Read (Dexys, Mark Lanegan, Dave Gahan,
Iggy Pop, Manic Street Preachers, Beth Orton, Chrissie
Hynde…).

Together they’ve revisited these lost gems of songs in a
manner that has allowed Astor to balance the way that they still
make sense to him now, looking both to the future and to that
big and interesting new country, the past.

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released March 15, 2024

2024 Tapete Records

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Pete Astor UK

Der ehemalige Frontmann der Bands The Loft und The Weather Prophets, die einst zu den beliebtesten Künstlern bei Creation Records zählten, ist ein Indie-Songschreiber, der über eine Menge Erfahrung und Bildung verfügt. Wie schon bei seiner letzten Veröffentlichung ist auch dieses Mal wieder James Hoare von Ultimate Painting, Proper Ornaments und Veronica Falls mit von der Partie. ... more

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