Sunday, August 24, 2025

250 Albums- An Arbitrary Rumble Through My Record Collection # 136 James - Village Fire

 

Takes me back instantly to the first time I heard it. In the room of the guy next door to me with James, Rod and Ben, almost forty years ago now. My first term at university. The great time of discovery and the tentative shift into adulthood which lasted the best point of twenty years.

James sound at their best to me here. It's deliberately sliphod and hesitant. But explorative. In the way many of the best bands of the time were Josef K. Fure Engines. Woodentops. Not intent on the charts so mych as an NME interview and a Peel interview. Those will always be the days.. There's something glorious about this raquet 

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