20 Jazz Funk Greats: Green Vinyl LP Marshall Crenshaw navigating the spaces between grief

navigating the spaces between grief and elation

It was a real gift that we were given

with guidelines from Beck

Parklife remains one of those rare albums that sum up a specific place and time (Britain in the mid-1990s)

The Guardian ("its songs barge in with urgency" 4*)

20 Jazz Funk Greats: Green Vinyl LP Marshall Crenshaw navigating the spaces between griefThe most well known TG 'studio' album was easily the group's most subversive. Rather than continue in the obviously provocative vein the pop culture of the time had been accustomed to, Throbbing Gristle threw a great curveball. By parodying easy listening sleeves of the 60s and 70s, TG sugared their output just enough to raise the profile of their work. Once lured in however, the listener is blasted with alternate soundworlds from the musique concrete