{"product_id":"bob-stanley-presents-76-in-the-shade","title":"Bob Stanley Presents 76 in the Shade","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe months without rain and airless days and nights might not have been something out of the ordinary in the Algarve or the south of France, but it was without precedent in Britain. The Summer of 1976 has remained a benchmark for long, hot summers – there may have been scorchers since, but none have seemed quite as relentless or enervating. The country melted into a collective puddle. \u003ci\u003e76 In The Shade\u003c\/i\u003e probably wasn’t anyone’s real life soundtrack of the year – that could have included Bowie’s \u003ci\u003eStation To Station \u003c\/i\u003eand Abba’s \u003ci\u003eGreatest Hits\u003c\/i\u003e. Instead, Saint Etienne’s Bob Stanley has put a compilation together that sonically evokes the summer of 1976 itself, its sweet heat and almost narcotic lethargy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGetting out of the sun, you might have sat inside with the radio on, and heard the dreamy wooziness of Liverpool Express’s \u003ci\u003eYou Are My Love\u003c\/i\u003e, 10cc’s \u003ci\u003eI’m Mandy Fly Me\u003c\/i\u003e, or the Emotions’ \u003ci\u003eFlowers\u003c\/i\u003e. Or maybe you flopped out in front of the telly, where you heard an alternative summer soundtrack – the music libraries that provided the bulk of the testcard’s music gave us Simon Park’s minimal \u003ci\u003eStoned Out\u003c\/i\u003e and John Cameron’s deeply immersive \u003ci\u003eLiquid Sunshine\u003c\/i\u003e; the Californian jazzer Spike Janson provided the wordless vocal harmonies of \u003ci\u003eWalking So Free\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e76 In The Shade\u003c\/i\u003e follows in the footsteps of Bob Stanley’s hugely successful comps for Ace, including \u003ci\u003eEnglish Weather\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Tears Of Technology\u003c\/i\u003e. It suggests bright yellow sunshine, hot plastic car seats, cats lolloping on the lawn. A few tracks (Smokey Robinson, Cliff Richard, David Ruffin, Carmen McRae) act as necessary splashes of cooling water; most of them sound like it’s just too hot to move. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ace Records","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50402321695051,"sku":"1096969","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50402321760587,"sku":"1096968","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/2fea06b7-4c67-4eda-b23e-c4aa7e81131c_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726540850","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/products\/bob-stanley-presents-76-in-the-shade","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}