Artist:
Pete Astor
Genre:
Pop/Rock
Alternative/Indie Rock
Total Time:
40:16
Record Label:
Tapete Records
Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Vinyl, Apple Music
Release Date
March 15, 2024
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Pete Astor
Genre:
Pop/Rock
Alternative/Indie Rock
Total Time:
40:16
Record Label:
Tapete Records
Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Vinyl, Apple Music
Release Date
March 15, 2024
"The Entertainment Factor is supported by its audience. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission."
Find out more about this album release after the jump.
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Product Description: 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.
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.
TRACK LIST:
1 .
Model Village
Pete Astor feat. The Loft
(03:58)
2 . Ladies and Gentlemen Pete Astor feat. The Wisdom Of Harry (03:38)
3 . Chinese Cadillac Pete Astor feat. The Weather Prophets (03:05)
4 . The Emperor, the Dealer and the Birthday Boy (03:11)
5 . She Comes from the Rain Pete Astor feat. The Weather Prophets (03:41)
6 . Nancy True Knot (02:42)
7 . Caesar Boots Pete Astor feat. The Wisdom Of Harry (03:10)
8 . Head over Heels Pete Astor feat. The Weather Prophets (02:44)
9 . Marsh Blues (04:20)
10 . Emblem (03:34)
11 . isney Queen (03:30)
12 .On Top Above the Driver (02:47)
2 . Ladies and Gentlemen Pete Astor feat. The Wisdom Of Harry (03:38)
3 . Chinese Cadillac Pete Astor feat. The Weather Prophets (03:05)
4 . The Emperor, the Dealer and the Birthday Boy (03:11)
5 . She Comes from the Rain Pete Astor feat. The Weather Prophets (03:41)
6 . Nancy True Knot (02:42)
7 . Caesar Boots Pete Astor feat. The Wisdom Of Harry (03:10)
8 . Head over Heels Pete Astor feat. The Weather Prophets (02:44)
9 . Marsh Blues (04:20)
10 . Emblem (03:34)
11 . isney Queen (03:30)
12 .On Top Above the Driver (02:47)
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