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LP jacket hand-made from 100% recycled thick 25pt. chipboard with white screenprinted lettering and custom window die-cut. 2 slabs of 180gram vinyl in inner sleeves printed on uncoated heavyweight paper. Includes additional artwork/credit insert and digital download coupon.
CD gatefold jacket made from 100lb. textured uncoated cardstock with foil-embossed text and window cut. Three different two-sided duotone insert cards can be interchanged to show through the front cover window cut. A fourth insert card contains credit info.
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Tracklist
1. 1978
2. Le'espalace
3. If I Only...
4. Highway 420
5. Dr. Hooch
6. Disco and Haze
7. Onions
8. The Fare To Get There
Running time: 01:12:44
Packaging Notes
LP jacket hand-made from 100% recycled thick 25pt. chipboard with white screenprinted lettering and custom window die-cut. 2 slabs of 180gram vinyl in inner sleeves printed on uncoated heavyweight paper. Includes additional artwork/credit insert and digital download coupon.
CD gatefold jacket made from 100lb. textured uncoated cardstock with foil-embossed text and window cut. Three different two-sided duotone insert cards can be interchanged to show through the front cover window cut. A fourth insert card contains credit info.
Description Do Make Say Think self-released this debut album in Toronto in 1997, and we heard it the following spring. The band’s infectious spacerock-cum-swing approach to sweeping instrumentals, and their brilliant realisation of the potentials of 8-track recording, hooked us instantly. Rhythm syncopation, reverb-soaked guitar, the occasional horn, and some of the finest saturated synth tones we’ve ever heard – this record conjures up rainy streets and wet cigarettes with the best of them. A classic modern lounge album that also shreds, with widescreen breakbeat blissouts driven by punk-rock guitars. An exuberant debut, containing all the building blocks DMST has been transforming into sublime music architectures ever since.
Credits
Ohad Benchetrit: guitar, bass, saxophone, fluteJason McKenzie: keyboards, effects
Dave Mitchell: drums
James Payment: drums
Justin Small: guitar
Charles Spearin: bass, guitar, trumpet
Reviews
"Instrumental loveliness by way of bass and drums fronted by delayed guitars and serious keyboards… [A]n impressive debut that you can throw on and leave on and enjoy right to the end of the lovely 20-minute closing track." – Filler
"[A] sonic treat…the whole album feels like the soundtrack to a surreal drive through Toronto's warehouse district at five in the morning" – Broken Pencil
"The songs bear…the seal of careful love and pure craftsmanship, along with minute attention to detail; it's a purely instrumental album awash in reverb guitar and scintillating synths." – Stylus
"Like a slow drip, the rhythms presented on this record hypnotize with repetitive, almost maddening nonchalance." – Copper Press
"[G]orgeous tones and textures and inventive fusion of sampled sounds and retro analogue keyboards and drums… There's more detail in the CD sleeve alone…than most bands put into an album." – Sunday Times
"[A]n album of stunning quality." – Cafe Bliss
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