{"product_id":"colossal-tunes-out","title":"Colossal Tunes Out","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat happened in February 1983 then? Serial killer Dennis Nilsen was arrested, unemployment hit an all-time high, the Mini Metro was Britain’s best selling car and The Cravats released a flipping stonking LP on Corpus Christi Records.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlayed to pieces by Peel and hugging the indie chart’s midriff for a good few weeks, every track on \u003ci\u003eColossal\u003c\/i\u003e is indeed ruddy enormous. Like everything by these dada-dealing daddios the music is a highly calculated cacophony of pounding drums, behemoth bass and fraught guitars all drenched in sonically deranged saxophone while the songs are surreal stories sheathed in the scenery of their small town English home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe whole beast is a kind of all you can eat aural entertainment buffet featuring 13 of the band’s best bites of the bizarre. From the frantic psycho surfabilly opener, \u003ci\u003eOff The Beach \u003c\/i\u003eto the ferocious hornets-in-a-holdall drone of\u003ci\u003e I Am The Dreg\u003c\/i\u003e, The Cravats employed their entire toolbox of toys when putting this doozy together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eApart from newly recorded tracks, \u003ci\u003eThere Is No International Rescue, Fireman, Terminus, The Station, Icecubists, Daddy’s Shoes\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWorking Down Underground\u003c\/i\u003e you got the Small Wonder Records single releases, \u003ci\u003eAnd The Sun Shone, You’re Driving Me\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eI Am The Dreg\u003c\/i\u003e (the version of \u003ci\u003eOff The Beach\u003c\/i\u003e on here was recorded on a mobile studio positioned in a pig pen next to their practice room down on the farm in Worcestershire. It’s noisier and more unkempt than the Small Wonder single release).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlus there’s the ‘hit’ single (well, It sold more than anything else they ever did!) \u003ci\u003eRub Me Out\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWhen Will We Fall\u003c\/i\u003e, forged by High Priest of Punk, Penny Rimbaud with the aid of Southern Studios sound guru, John Loder which was fired out of the Crass Records canon in 1982. No track sounds like any of its companions but every track sounds like The Cravats.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe original \u003ci\u003eColossal Tunes Out\u003c\/i\u003e LP certainly deserves its legendary status and hefty price tag on the rare record resell circuit. It’s good news that Overground Records are putting these tunes out again and it’s great news that they still sound colossal!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Overground","offers":[{"title":"Black | LP","offer_id":50438444024139,"sku":"1107111","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/11dc23e6-69ce-4d16-9995-e25274839329_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726942911","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/colossal-tunes-out","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}