It's Immaterial

There was no existing thread amazingly.

Anyway their official(?) Facebook group http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7692217731 has a new song on it called
New Moon available as a free download while some little tease has posted THIS picture:

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/62993_10150272548420413_682080412_14774836_1772011_n.jpg

What can it all mean?

Either way it's great to once again hear John Campbell's now traditional 'spoken word' bit at the end of this new track...

This was always my fave from the *genuinely* great debut album that basically turned me on to non chart music all by itself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL1h39PxInI

Love that song! Never heard the albums, but the singles were great.

Listening to that song again and it's ramshackle quality makes me think of the Woodentops, the Blue Aeroplanes, the Band of Holy Joy... have no idea what scene they were part of at the time though.

can'tsingcore

Haha yeah, it's that whole wordy blokes mumbling over skiffle thing innit

i passed on a dollar 12" of 'space' this weekend. i already have the lp. didn't know if the 2 mixes on it were markedly different.

so i was thinking "man these guys were on some blue nile ish with the second album" before just finding out that calum malcolm from the blue nile actually produced the album, hah

the album
called 'song'

Their lead singer sounds like Kevin Spacey.

thread needs more Driving Away From Home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksISqfRVLH0

i swear Wild Beasts must have their 2 albums in their collection.

Listened to Dan Selzer's mix with 'A Gigantic Raft in the Philippines' on it. Surprised it's not loved here. Is it too much like other groups e.g. Talking Heads, Gang of Four for other ppl's liking?

it's very like The Go-Betweens too.

there was a Facebook page set up by what appeared for the best part of a year to be the band themselves. in the end turned out it was a hoax! whoever was running the page was leaking new, unreleased tracks and stuff all over the place. crazy really.

how did the hoaxter get the new unreleased tracks? Or did they finish that last album and nobody would release it, so someone at the label or studio decided to spread it around? I tried getting in touch with someone from the band but got no response.

yeah that 3rd album was made but unreleased. soemone musta got their hands on it. from what i heard it didn't sound much cop anyway :/
http://www.facebook.com/groups/Itsimmaterial/

someone also set up a soundcloud but that got taken down too.

new Fb page (supposedly genuine this time!)
http://www.facebook.com/ItsImmaterial

Yeah, excited about that. I emailed about the early stuff too.

cracking faintly tragi-comic feature over 6 pages in Classic Pop mag this month. I had no idea that The Christians essentially formed *because* of their work on Ed's Funky Diner! fascinating piece anyway, essentially they won, in their own way.,

What's Classic Pop mag?

Anyway, as of a few days ago more posts on facebook about another album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl_6OSVgCLs

^ no idea what it is, but this popped up while i was digging around on youtube the other day. bit of a talk talk / tears for fears thing going on

http://www.classicpopmag.com/ , Dan.

I'm guessing the feature was by Wyndham Wallace?

yeah Classic Pop.. 6 quid it is!

more unheard stuff in this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-eSxpQghT4

make some noise if you give a shit

http://www.superdeluxeedition.com/news/its-immaterial-lifes-hard-and-then-you-die-track-listing-revealed/

Excellent. Read somewhere that the 3rd album was finally going to get a proper release one day soon. Anyone know about anything about that?

they keep teasing it on facebook.

indeed, i just found that - thanks dan!

yeah there's to be a kickstarter-y thing.

good new primer here on all things *pre* the debut, which is an album's worth of EPs, singles and B sides all by itself

https://postpunkmonk.wordpress.com/2016/06/10/its-immaterial-prehistory-in-need-of-compilingcan-it-be-done/

always blows my mind just how much other stuff there was by these guys. it was literally unavailable anywhere in the late 80s and i barely knew of much of its existence (Fish Waltz EP, Imitate The Worm single) until the internet came along. some of those Liverpool labels musta been tiny.

I tried emailing them on facebook about reissuing that stuff, LOVE those early singles. Never got a response.

as of today the remaster is on Spotify in full FYI.

Just now discovering this group. The Song album is excellent - I think it should get mentioned alongside Blue Nile's Hats. same gorgeous rainy-day atmosphere, completely transporting