SIMPLE MINDS Real To Real Cacophony (Zoom) RARE UK 1st Pressing + Insert MINT-

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SIMPLE MINDS Real To Real Cacophony (Zoom SPART 1109) RAREST UK 1st Pressing + Insert MINT-
RARE very first UK pressing of the Simple Minds` "Real To Real Cacophony", released on the Zoom label, a subsidiary of Arista Records (November 1979).
"Reel to Real is the wildest ride the Simple Minds ever went on, foraying into soundscape weirdness (check the bugged-out bass riff that lends contour to the ambient squiggle of "Veldt"), as well as spiky mirror-ball rock and gothic motorik. Jim Kerr's vocals wouldn't yet attain their full Bonoesque bombast for a few years - here, he instead falls somewhere between Bryan Ferry and Colin Newman, at once spastic and strangely reserved. "Real to Real" opens the album at a crawl, with the band banging out a cockeyed rhythm and Kerr snaking through it wraithlike. 
The album's peaks include the wickedly loopy "Carnival (Shelter in a Suitcase)", which veers between Can of Bees psych verses and crazy circus synth parts over percolating bass, and "Changeling", a bristling dance track led by a nasty, fuzzed-out synth. "Changeling" pairs nicely with "Premonition", which -with its insistent bass and Kerr's bombastic chorus- is the album's best predicator of the band's future."   - Joe Tangari for Pitchfork.com (8.5/10 points).
GRADING:
MINT- COVER with very minor wear. Please see photos for details.
- Original matt, fully textured cover. Embossed bars and silver print.
- Lightest colour loss along top edge and spine from storage.
- Minor corner bump (at top right).
- Also includes original cardboard insert in MINT- condition, with silver litho print as used for first pressings only!

MINT- RECORD that looks practically unplayed. 
- A few lightest hairlines from sleeve removal only.
- Absolutely perfect, spindle-free labels on both sides. Labelling in first-edition silver typography.
- Matrix stamps in the run-off grooves read "SPARTY 1109 A//1 ? EAR 1 1" and "SPARTY 1109 B//4 ? 420 3 11 1", respectively. 
- This record is certified to be an original, very early if not first UK pressing of "Real To Real Cacophony".
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