Various - Friendly Fires - Late Night Tales

half speed mastered 180 gram double vinyl album with cd and cover art print. late night tales reaches the big 30 and what a way to celebrate, with a landmark edition from the effervescent friendly fires. the opening third is pitched firmly on the up, tripping back through disco's global strands with ontario's junior boys, 80s dutch proto-house by rene, grammy award winning joe simon, the erotically charged discofunk odyssey 'carry on, turn me on' by french outfit space and anthemic porn-disco 'fly like an eagle' by dennis parker. taking a left turn via the always welcome art-pop auteurs bibio and stereolab, the familiar chimes of 'hold on' by sbtrkt ring onto friendly fires' exclusive cover version of the '78 electronic classic 'why don't you answer' by eberhard schoener and sting. we also see a brace of fresh 2012 releases in the form of iron galaxy 'attention seeker' and melody's echo chamber 'endless shore'. on the home leg, grouper's acoustic minimalism attracts the shoegazing daydreams of cocteau twins and slowdive before friendly fires take it home with the seemingly unmanageable arrangement of olivia newton john into german neo-classical composer nils frahm. tucking you in, late night tales begin a new bedtime story 'flat of angles' narrated by new storyteller benedict cumberbatch. elementary.