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Discography
Albums
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Discography: Albums

  • My Maudlin Career

    21 April 2009

    1. “French Navy”
    2. “The Sweetest Thing”
    3. “You Told A Lie”
    4. “Away With Murder”
    5. “Swans”
    6. “James”
    7. “Careless Love”
    8. “My Maudlin Career”
    9. “Forests And Sands”
    10. “Other Towns And Cities”
    11. “Honey In The Sun”

    4AD CAD 2907CD CD, CAD 2907 LP, EAD 2907A DL

  • Lets Get Out Of This Country

    1 June 2006

    Lets Get Out Of This Country1. “Lloyd, I’m Ready to Be Heartbroken” – 3:49
    2. “Tears for Affairs” – 4:04
    3. “Come Back Margaret” – 3:47
    4. “Dory Previn” – 4:16
    5. “The False Contender” – 3:38
    6. “Let’s Get Out of This Country” – 3:21
    7. “Country Mile” – 3:59
    8. “If Looks Could Kill” – 3:29
    9. “I Need All the Friends I Can Get” – 3:18
    10. “Razzle Dazzle Rose” – 5:28

    Elefant ER-1123 CD and LP / Merge MRG276

    Carey :
    Recorded in two different studios in Stockholm in less than a fortnight with mad pixie Jari Haapalainen jumping up and down making us work harder. There are lots of guitars, a drum kit found in a skip, a magnificent crackly Hammond and more hakers, maracas and handclaps than a particularly large primary school music room.

  • Underachievers Please Try Harder

    1 September 2003

    September 2003 / January 2004 in USA
    Elefant ER-1104 CD and Merge MRG239

    Carey :
    The album was recorded over a series of long weekends in 2003. Every session had its highlights, one of which was playing with local pedal-steel-wizz Wullie Gamble on Books for Girls and recording the 50s warble on the Teenager choruses. Others included the big dinners cooked in the Cava kitchen and starting the day with over-priced rolls and greasy-thing from the local shop.

  • Biggest Bluest Hi Fi

    1 November 2001

    2001 Release (Andmoresound)
    1. Happy New Year
    2. Eighties Fan
    3. Houseboat
    4. Pen and Notebook
    5. Swimming Pool
    6. Anti-Western
    7. I Don’t Do Crowds
    8. The Sun on His Back
    9. Double Feature
    10. Arrangements of Shapes and Space

    2002 (Elefant) and 2004 (Merge) Re-Releases
    1. Happy New Year
    2. Eighties Fan
    3. Houseboat
    4. Shine Like a New Pin
    5. Pen and Notebook
    6. Swimming Pool
    7. Anti-Western
    8. Let’s Go Bowling
    9. I Don’t Do Crowds
    10. The Sun on His Back
    11. Double Feature
    12. Arrangements of Shapes and Space

    Gav :
    It all started with recording Eighties Fan in CaVa studios. Our first visit to a real studio, we felt like we were in Abbey Road. After the single session, we went back in over weekends whenever we could over the next year (November 1999 to December 2000) working with Geoff Allen engineering for us.

    It was a really exciting time as the songs came together and the album started to take shape.  CaVa is a converted church next to Kelvingrove Park with a great band room (Room 2) where we usually recorded. A couple of times we got to go into Room 1 which was enormous and a total luxury. Altogether a very different way to record than in my parent’s cellar.