Cold and Bouncy - The High Llamas [original 1998 double vinyl LP, V2 Records]
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Original 1998 double vinyl LP release on V2 Records. Records, sleeves and covers are in excellent condition. Plays extremely well.
Track Listing
1. Twisto Teck
2. The Sun Beats Down
3. HiBall Nova Scotia
4. Tilting Windmills
5. Glide Time
6. Bouncy Glimmer
7. Three Point Scrabble
8. Homespin Rerun
9. Painters Paint
10. Evergreen Vampo
11. Showstop Hip Hop
12. Over the River
13. End on Tick Tock
14. Didball
15. Jazzed Carpenter
16. Lobby Bears

Details Playing Time: 63 min. Distributor: BMG (distributor) Recording Type: Studio Recording Mode: Stereo SPAR Code: n/a
Album Notes
The High Llamas include: Marcus Holdaway (cello); Sean O'Hagan, John Bennett, Jon Fell, Rob Allum.Additional personnel: Kelsey Michael (vocals); Jackie Norrie, Sally Herbert, Julia Singleton (violin); Katie Wilkinson (viola); Colin Crawley (tenor saxophone, flute); Steve Waterman (trumpet, flugelhorn); Andy Robinson, Mark Bassey (trombone); Dominic Murcott (vibraphone, marimba); Andy Ramsey (electronic percussion, sound effects); Fulton Dingley (programming, loops).Recorded at Blackwing Studios, London, England in 1997.Personnel: Kelsey Michael (vocals); Jacqueline Norrie, Julia Singleton, Sally Herbert (violin); Katie Wilkinson Khoroshunin (viola); Marcus Holdaway (cello); Colin Crawley (flute, tenor saxophone); Steve Waterman (trumpet, flugelhorn); Mark Bassey, Andy Robinson (trombone); Dominic Murcott (vibraphone, marimba); Andy Ramsay (electronic percussion); Fulton Dingley (programming, loops).Audio Mixers: Fulton Dingley; The High Llamas.Recording information: Blackwing Studios, London, England (1997).Unknown Contributor Roles: Andy Ramsay; John Bennett; Rob Allum; Sean O'Hagan.If your tastes run towards lounge music, analog synthesizers and the Beach Boys' PET SOUNDS, you'll want to keep up with every installment in the High Llamas saga. They don't vary very much, but each album does get closer to a kind of postmodern pastoral. Where PET SOUNDS managed to create pastoral music out of post-barbershop harmonies and sophisticated orchestral arrangements, the High Llamas make theirs out of gurgling synths, warm vibraphones, hypnotic vocal melodies (when there are vocals; several tracks are instrumentals) and other ambient touches.Tracks like "The Sun Beats Down" are essentially ambient music with choruses and, as the title suggests, a noticeable pop bounce. The occasional addition of horns, as on the gorgeous "Painters Paint," brings things a bit closer to recognizable PET SOUNDS territory, or more aptly, like Stereolab producing XTC. The Llamas are a smart, unique pop band running amok in an electronics store.


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