This wonderful album finally saw it's long overdue vinyl release back in 2014 - thought to be completely sold out (an it HAS been deleted) I have found a batch more in our Sugarbush warehouse. So here is another chance to grab a copy of this wonderful Scottish Jangle pop classic.
When
initially released on CD it was so well received that ALAN MCGEE signed
the band to his POPTONES label. A classic Scottish record that is full
of melody, great harmonies and 12-string Rickenbackers. Every song on
this album is a winner.
This from the ACTIVE LISTENER WEBSITE: When it was originally released back in 2000, the Cosmic Rough Riders
second album "Panorama" had the cream of the U.K music press (Uncut, Q,
Mojo etc.) falling over themselves to announce its brilliance.
A Scottish band with a convoluted personnel history (let's just say that
singer / songwriter Daniel Wylie basically is the Cosmic Rough Riders),
on their second album they added a whole bunch of sunny California and
West Coast to their melodic Teenage Fanclub jangle, with Wylie writing
the best songs of his career (although his subsequent solo career has
been pretty flash too).
There's an immediate appeal to these songs that makes it easy to see why
they were tagged the "next big thing", but harder to work out why they
didn't stick in the public consciousness of the time. Certainly the open
adoption of the vintage sixties influences on display here was unusual
for the time, and may have been enough to confuse the casual punter into
buying the latest Travis album instead, but tracks like "Revolution (In
The Summertime)" and "You've Got Me" tick all of the right catchy and
melodic boxes to be players on radio, and there's plenty of depth beyond
the surface level hooks; "Afterglow" dabbles in alt. country harmonies
more effectively than anything you'll hear this side of the Jayhawks,
but it's "The Gun Isn't Loaded" which packs the biggest punch with its
spot on Eastern psychedelia easily recapturing and redefining "Within
You Without You" for a contemporary audience.
LTD edition AUDIOPHILE pressing - FREE POSTAGE anywhere!
