Magazine – Rays And Hail – Vinyl LP

Yellow Vinyl. Enduringly credible, Magazine have always been the music connoisseur’s choice; frequently name checked by some of the most gifted musicians of recent years including Radiohead, Morrissey, Jarvis Cocker, U2, Johnny Marr and MGMT. NME. Com went so far as to included Magazine in a poll as one of the most influential bands of all time. Created by frontman, Howard Devoto – who co-formed Buzzcocks with Pete Shelley – Magazine’s sound focused on the double barrels of Dave Formula’s swirling keyboards and John McGeoch’s ahead-of-it’s-time innovative guitar work, underpinned by Barry Adamson’s pulsing yet deviously irregular basslines. Atop of this sat Howard Devoto’s lyrics. Leading the vanguard of post-punk, their released four groundbreaking albums before disbanding. 1987’s compilation, Rays & Hails, is repressed for the first time on colored vinyl, has a new configuration and sequence from previous iterations, and features unseen images and new notes from band members compiled and curated by Rory Sullivan-Burke.

1 Shot By Both Sides
2 Definitive Gaze
3 Motorcade
4 The Light Pours Out of Me
5 Parade (Live Version from ‘Play’)
6 Feed the Enemy
7 Rhythm of Cruelty
8 Back to Nature
9 Permafrost
10 Because You’re Frightened
11 You Never Knew Me
12 A Song from Under the Floorboards
13 I Want to Burn Again
14 Sweetheart Contract
15 This Poison
16 Naked Eye
17 Physics
18 Holy Dotage
19 Final Analysis Waltz