play loud! is releasing the entire recordings of the Manchester post-punk band GODS GIFT (1979-1984), some for the first time ever. John Peel was a fan. Mark E. Smith too. Gods Gift guitar player Steve Murphy compiled 11 songs for what will be their first LP ever. Includes DVD with live show in Rotterdam.
Available for pre-order soon.
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Excerpt from the album´s liner notes by Stephen Murphy (Gods Gift´s co-founder & guitar player):

"Manchester was almost cave-like somehow, like a giant tunnel of grim half-light. It seemed as if it was always dark and always raining. The buildings were either grey or shades of grey and that made it a very oppressive atmosphere to inhabit. I think a lot of people of our age reacted to this bleakness and responded accordingly. It was the time of Thatcher of course and there was the added horror of a quite horrendous Manchester chief of police called James Anderton, who was referred to, mockingly, as God's Cop. He disliked everything and anything that could make life remotely enjoyable and had a special hatred of homosexuals. I wouldn’t lend any weight to his history but I would advise anybody to read about the things he said, whilst bearing in mind he was actually the Police Chief of our city and listened only to God. He hated any sort of difference in people and that didn't fit well with a very working-class city. Those years and the way we lived and were brought up made our stance very anti-authoritarian. I think that the coming together of these shoots of miserable city life and working 60 hours a week in a Victorian asylum were defining factors for the appearance of Gods Gift. Such an era, such a bleak city, such a miserable lack of self-determination festering in a gothic workplace, with its innate mental health horrors, it truly created some strange feelings and opinions for us."

• 01 Discipline

  04:27

• 02 Jaquelines Admission

  05:41

• 03 Good and Evil

  04:35

• 04 Plague of Dreams

  04:59

• 05 Anaesthetic

  04:07

• 06 Clamour Club

  02:33

• 07 Creeps In

  03:04

• 08 Anthony Perkins

  02:49

• 09 These Days

  03:15

• 010 Phone from the Future

  02:50

• 11 Revelations

  07:22