The La’s – The La’s (UMC) LP

Product Description

Some albums exist outside of time or place, gently floating on their own style and sensibility. Of those, the La’s lone album may be the most beguiling, a record that consciously calls upon the hooks and harmonies of 1964 without seeming fussily retro, a trick that anticipated the cheerful classicism of the Brit-pop ’90s. But where their sons Oasis and Blur were all too eager to carry the torch of the past, Lee Mavers and the La’s exist outside of time, suggesting the ’60s in their simple, tuneful, acoustic-driven arrangements but seeming modern in their open, spacy approach, sometimes as ethereal as anything coming out of the 4AD stable but brought down to earth by their lean, no-nonsense attack, almost as sinewy as any unaffected British Invasion band. But where so many guitar pop bands seem inhibited by tradition, the La’s were liberated by it, using basic elements to construct their own identity, one that’s propulsive and tuneful, or sweetly seductive, as it is on the band’s best-known song, “There She Goes.”

FORMAT: 180 gram vinyl with download code.

Tracklist:

A1.Son Of A Gun
A2.I Can’t Sleep
A3.Timeless Melody
A4.Liberty Ship
A5.There She Goes
A6.Doledrum

B1.Feelin’
B2.Way Out
B3.I.O.U.
B4.Freedom Song
B5.Failure
B6.Looking Glass

UMC 4789714