Track Listing
1. Norfolk
2. Evening Return
3. (Symbols)
4. Hay Harvest Had Special Charms, The
5. Oblique View of an Irrationally Happy Time, An
6. Small Town Prejudice
7. Abstracting Electricity
8. Spell of Rain, A
9. Fades to End a Day
10. Fashion Mistake of the Decade
11. Summers Last Annual
12. Coastal Driftings
13. British Radars
14. Church, Circular
15. Be Nice to Everyone at All Times (With a Few Important Exceptions)
16. Finite Differences
17. Highly Competitive Cut Throat World
18. Hurt
19. Untitled #2
20. Thinly Veiled Excuse For Something More, A
| Details | | Distributor: | Revolver USA Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
One of 1994's most memorable artifacts was CABLED LINEAR TRACTION, the vinyl-only LP debut of Leeds' loose lo-fi collective Hood. Licensed the following year by famed American indie Slumberland Records and reissued (again, only on vinyl) in the wake of the attention focused on Flying Saucer Attack and other like-minded home-taping concerns, the album revived interest in the insular world of bedroom musicians. In 1999, Slumberland finally opted to make CABLED accessible to the turntable-less masses.
It's easy to see why CABLED has been a source of such long-standing fascination. A collage of song fragments and sometimes-thwarted experiments, the album appears to have been pieced together from the tattered dreams, doubts, and desires of Hood's guiding voices, brothers Richard and Chris Adams. For every charmingly awkward rock/pop move pulled, there are as many extraordinary moments of personal revelation--confessions, resigned love songs, searching fragments, instrumental fugues, sighs, cries, and howls of disaffection mortared with blood and tears. Hood remains in the shadows through it all, undisclosed and emotionally unknowable in spite of the music's nakedness. A million listens couldn't penetrate this album's enigmatic veil, but neither would they rob CABLED of its profoundly affective power. Eavesdrop to your heart's content.
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