The Wake C/D?

Around the time of release I wore this album out. It was fantastic but I haven't heard it for about 15 years now. I recently picked up my collection out of storage and will dig this out and play it again to see how it stands up today. Thanks for the reminder!

Want to investigate this band but having read that Harmony is similar to Movement has given me high expectations that I know are gonna leave me disappointed when I get to hear it.

i like harmony but it is no movement

here comes everybody is by some distance the better wake album

I bought Make it Loud back in the day, based mostly on Sarah brand recognition. It never made much of an impression, but it has been a long time. Maybe I should dig it out of the crate? I used to put the "Glider" instrumental on all my 'gaze mixtapes.

i probably should re-listen to it too, it's possibly been nearly ten years since i last pulled out any of their sarah stuff

their new album is due out early next year too

Here Comes Everybody is no Low-Life though. ;)

I like both Harmony and Here Comes Everybody but as an album goes, HCE is def. the better of the two.

the one thing that really surprised me about the wake, is that (and i only have a couple of live videos to base this on) they weren't crap live. maybe someone who actually saw them could confirm/deny

Am I mistaken, or was Bob Gillespie a member of The Wake at some point?

He was, he's on the earliest recordings.

I have all their stuff and never feel compelled to play it. I'll join you lot and put some of it on the next few days and report back.

Isn't LTM set to reissue it all?

Um, they did. Several years back.

Oh that's right. I own them! I could've sworn I heard there's more Wake stuff coming from LTM though.

there is.. the new album!

i would have liked to hear a wake album produced by ian catt

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 14:39 (4 years ago)

lol i get my wish!

"Something Outside" is a monumental classic, while "Testament" and "On Our Honeymoon" are minor ones. Only "Testament" was on the Harmony mini-LP, but they're all on the cd. And "Judas" too.

Testament has Vini Reilly on it? One of them does, the one 12" of theirs I have, FAC88. I'm too lazy to look it up. Nope, it's Talk About the Past.

Anyone heard the new album? I'm seeing them on Sunday, have been listening to their old stuff on my ipod a lot this week and really getting into it.

haven't heard any of their newish stuff

i think pale spectre is one of the best songs ever. i like to think of it as being a tribute to phil spector

used to love 'harmony' but it's not doing it for me these days

recently been obsessed with crush the flowers/carbrain for some reason

in retrospect so many of the bands that wound up on sarah were kind of weird. casual take would peg them all as wispy indie bands, but upon closer inspection they all have wtf angles going on. field mice, st. christopher, orchids were all bizarre in their own way. i think

what's the bloody holdup with the new album?!

man, Here Comes Everybody is AWESOME! i guess since they were on factory and then sarah, everybody already knows about them but they're pretty much totally new to me. this kind of new (to me) find is exactly what i've been craving the last few months without even realizing it.

HCE is a v good album i think. harmony is patchy but i dig it. also i think make it loud is almost as good as the best of their factory stuff..

cap tracks is releasing vinyl reissues of the first 2 wake 45s toomorrow too

still new to a lot of folks due to it being out of print for such a long time. thanks to LTM being awesome, it's easy to get.

Is the new record still coming out? I'm really looking forward to a Wake album in 2011!

forthcoming notification taken off the ltm site. rmde

there was upposed to be a new album? they reformed? WTF?

i don't think there was an 'official' breakup. they indicated that they started recording a new record more than 3 years ago iirc, though who knows what has gone on since then.

wiki says they played a few shows last year. I suppose like anything, expensive to record and finish an album with no label support.

totally, though i got the (possibly mistaken) impression the album has been long finished..

oh hello

Wake, The - A Light Far Out (LTM (UK))
Release Date: May 8, 2012
CD (LTM2550)

LTM presents a brand new studio set by cult Factory/Sarah Records dreampop group The Wake, their first album since reforming in 2009 after an extended hiatus lasting 15 years.

Re-emerging with well-received live shows in Brussels, London, Paris and New York, core duo Caesar (guitar, bass and vocals) and Carolyn Allen (keyboards and vocals) recorded A Light Far Out with producers Ian Catt (St Etienne), Duncan Cameron (Teenage Fanclub) and remixer Drew Diver of NYC-based duo Horse Shoes.

‘Really it’s been a process of rediscovery,’ says Caesar. ‘After getting back together to play the Factory Night at Plan K in Brussels, then going on to play a few more gigs, we set about making a fifth album. Hopefully it combines elements from our past recordings with our more recent work as The Occasional Keepers - to create something that resonates in the present day.’

Talk About the Past: Often described as the missing link between Postcard Records and Factory, The Wake formed in Glasgow in 1981 after Caesar quit pre-fame Altered Images. After two albums and a slew of singles for iconic Manchester label Factory Records, The Wake joined esteemed indiepop label Sarah for two more albums between 1991 and 1994, Caesar and Carolyn then deciding to focus on experimental theatre work as 12 Stars. The duo also recorded two albums as The Occasional Keepers in collaboration with Bobby Wratten of The Field Mice/Trembling Blue Stars, and were tickled pink by Nouvelle Vague’s recent cover of O Pamela. Melancholy Man, another track from their 1985 album Here Comes Everybody, recently appeared on the Late Night Tales compilation curated by MGMT.

Tracklist:
Stockport
If the Ravens Leave
Methodist
The Back of Beyond
Starry Day
Faintness
A Light Far Out
The Sands

this is so cool, can't wait to hear this.

Yeah, good for them.

oh man, how long has this been a coming soon feature on the LTM web site? like ten years now? I can't believe it is finally getting released! can't wait to hear it.

Finally!

sound samples up on the darla site http://darla.com/index.php?fuseaction=item_cat.ecom_superitem_detail&item_cat_id=40419

sounds pretty good! i am glad town of 85 lights isn't on there too

New 2 CD version of Here Comes Everybody -- expansion of the previous edition, includes demos for Factory, a radio session, some more edits, etc.

http://www.factorybenelux.com/here_comes_everybody_fbn35cd.html

A Light Far Out is way better than it has any business being.

today I’m just a melancholy man alone in the park thinking baout things, so when the song came up in my playlist I had to laugh

ENVIRONMENTAL MUSIC

(also good revive ― love that song!)