Arnold – Windsor Park
It’s not from a great album, but Windsor Park is a thoroughly decent bit of lost late-90s British indie which I really rather like. Why do I like it so? Well, because I put two or three of the best songs on a really good mix tape for my brother which I ended up listening to myself an awful lot, and I also happen to associate it incredibly strongly with a particularly nasty, damp and cold basement flat in Arlington Street.
The Hillside Album is not, as I said, a great record, but there are some good bits on it and it can be acquired from Amazon Marketplace for a rather ludicrously low 98 pence at the moment. It is a also an example, not nearly as rare as it should be, of an album I bought almost exclusively because I loved the illustration on the cover. So shallow.
Arnold – Windsor Park
[Disclaimer: I am actually on holiday at the moment, probably fucking up my brother's wedding by swearing too much in the best man's speech, so it's all a bit minimal at the moment. Normal service will be resumed after we return on about the 25th July]
Hopeful rather than shallow? I often buy records on the strength of the cover art alone. True, it can be a little ‘hit and miss’ at times but often the sounds will match the images that drew you in…
Hopeful sounds much better. I just can’t resist a nice bit of cover graphics, despite the many dodgy avenues down which this approach has led me.