McCarthy: I Am a Wallet (Vinyl LP)
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Limited double red vinyl LP pressing including 13 bonus tracks. By the time McCarthy appeared on the NME's C86 cassette they had already been playing together for a couple of years and released two excellent singles. Their debut In Purgatory and the indie masterpiece Red Sleeping Beauty (both included on this release). The following year McCarthy released the brilliant Fran's Hals before unleashing their debut album I AM a WALLET. Now recognized as an indie pop masterpiece it has gone on to achieve cult status, receiving praise from the likes of Nicky Wire (Manic Street Preachers) as one of the most important albums of the '80s. Known by today's indie acolytes as the band that spawned Tim Gane and Leititia Sadier (who of course went on to form Stereolab). An MP Speaks, Monetaries, The International Narcotics Traffic, The Way of the World, Antinature, Charles Windsor, The Vision of Peregrine Worsthorne, The Well of Loneliness, The Wicked Palace Revolution, God Made the Virus, The Funeral, A Child Soon in Chains, In the Dark Times, The Procession of Popular, Capitalism, In Purgatory, Comrade Era, Something Wrong Somewhere, Red Sleeping Beauty, From the Damned, For the Fat Lady, Frans Hals, Kill Kill Kill Kill, You're Alive, Bad Dreams, Someone Worse Off, Antiamericancretin, Unfortunately
Limited double red vinyl LP pressing including 13 bonus tracks. By the time McCarthy appeared on the NME's C86 cassette they had already been playing together for a couple of years and released two excellent singles. Their debut In Purgatory and the indie masterpiece Red Sleeping Beauty (both included on this release). The following year McCarthy released the brilliant Fran's Hals before unleashing their debut album I AM a WALLET. Now recognized as an indie pop masterpiece it has gone on to achieve cult status, receiving praise from the likes of Nicky Wire (Manic Street Preachers) as one of the most important albums of the '80s. Known by today's indie acolytes as the band that spawned Tim Gane and Leititia Sadier (who of course went on to form Stereolab). An MP Speaks, Monetaries, The International Narcotics Traffic, The Way of the World, Antinature, Charles Windsor, The Vision of Peregrine Worsthorne, The Well of Loneliness, The Wicked Palace Revolution, God Made the Virus, The Funeral, A Child Soon in Chains, In the Dark Times, The Procession of Popular, Capitalism, In Purgatory, Comrade Era, Something Wrong Somewhere, Red Sleeping Beauty, From the Damned, For the Fat Lady, Frans Hals, Kill Kill Kill Kill, You're Alive, Bad Dreams, Someone Worse Off, Antiamericancretin, Unfortunately