Jacobites: Robespierre's Velvet Basement
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Numero group Jacobites: Robespierre’s Velvet Basement Catalog Number: JR020 Artist: Jacobites Title: Robespierre’s Velvet Basement Release Date: 1/21/14 UPC: 825764602013 Available formats: lp Genre: Rock Vinyl is not returnable Track Listing Side A 1. Big Store 2. Snow White 3. Fortune Of Fame The lush second album by Nikki Sudden and Dave Kusworth as Jacobites, 1985’s Robespierre’s Velvet Basement is a 4. Where The River Ends decadent and inviting garage, decorated by upfront acoustic 5. Silken Sheets guitars and unabashed devotion to Faces, Stones, and the folky young Bolan. Drunk on red wine and shambling 6. Ambulance through predictions of Brit pop to come, Robespierre’s Side B Velvet Basement, originally planned for four sides of Glass 1. Hearts Are Like Flowers Records vinyl, was pared down to hit a pinnacle of Nikki Sudden’s ‘80s oeuvre, a loose and grandly bedraggled 2. It’ll All End Up In Tears portrait of British rock at the crossroads. 3. She Never Believes In founding Swell Maps, the post-punk prefacing 4. All The Dark Rags Birmingham art-snots, Nikki Sudden and his drumming 5. One More String Of Pearls brother Epic Soundtracks charted new territory for racket and corrosive guitar. But after folding Swell Maps at the 5. I Am Just A Broken Heart dawn of the ‘80s, Nikki Sudden plowed through another 6. Only Children Sleeping decade’s worth of terrifically fertile ground. Drawing on his devotion to the Rolling Stones and T. Rex—alongside guitarist Dave Kusworth as Jacobites, plus a cheekily named cohort of British sidemen—Nikki Sudden cut a string of raw, LP inspired rock ‘n’ roll records, etched with double-edged travel melancholia and hard-bitten punk dejection..