| Format: | LP |
| Availability: | In stock |
LTV01
22/09/2023
100 Copies on transparent vinyl with vanity splatter. Hand numbered. 180 gram heavy weight pressing. Poly lined inner sleeves. Poly outer sleeve with flap.
Late TV - The “House band for the chat show in your head” present their debut full-length album “Vanity City”, a stylish blend of moody Art Rock, New Wave, Jazz, Funk, Yacht Rock and Indie. The record is out on Friday 8th September as a limited edition 180mg splatter LP and Download via Bandcamp.
Settle into a black leather Le Corbusier chair, ideally situated next to a balcony window behind which high-rise lights twinkle across the horizon, and take in Vanity City. A sleek suite of 10 songs, pulling together the quartet’s cocktail of influences, blended and filtered through a noir lens and poured into a suitably elegant glass for your consumption.
The songs on this record are designed to flash up like set-pieces in a late-night movie. Each one is a sideways rumination on different aspects of the romantic experience. Themes of love, desire, passion, confusion, frustration, jealousy, and excitement are woven into narratives and delivered via music walking a line from David Bowie and Talking Heads through to Bad Bad Not Good and Mildlife.
The title is derived from the concept of a ‘vanity address’. When a residential building on an obscure back-street has one side door onto a desirable boulevard, giving its occupants licence to exaggerate its perceived status. Late TV are residing right here, exploring the postmodern wastelands of pop as high-brow/low-brow mutant junk dwellers, collecting the shards of our fragmented culture and building something new and infectious.
Vanity City is available as a numbered 100 issue splatter effect Vinyl LP. The download also features Late TV’s version of Edwyn Collins’s "A Girl Like You", re-imagined as a smooth slice of AOR-Rock-Disco.