The Academy in Peril: Vinyl LP Eleri Ward warm tones that only analogue

warm tones that only analogue audio can offer

heralded the Minneapolis-based band’s competing tendencies toward indelible genius and reckless abandon

Casting aside the familiar G-funk vibe of his debut

Graham Costello (Gearbox Records)

the second EP from South London-based quintet Moreish Idols

The Academy in Peril: Vinyl LP Eleri Ward warm tones that only analogueJohn Cale was never very kind to his solo debut, Vintage Violence. When it was released in early 1970, Cale had been out of The Velvet Underground for less than two years. He wanted to prove he could be the songwriter, the person penning the words and melodies behind which a band could work. I was masked on Vintage Violence, he wrote much later. Youre not really seeing the personality. Indeed, Cales personality as a polyglot seemingly interested in