Artist: Shack: mp3 download Genre(s): Rock Discography: Waterpistol Year: 2007 Tracks: 12 On the Corner of Miles and Gil Year: 2006 Tracks: 12 Zilch Year: 2005 Tracks: 10 Here's Tom With the Weather Year: 2003 Tracks: 12 H.M.S. Fable Year: 1999 Tracks: 12 Following the looseness of his cult-favorite 80s indie-pop band the Pale Fountains, Liverpudlian singer-songwriter Michael Head formed Shack with his guitarist brother John. The group debuted in 1988 with Cypher, once more dropping victim to the commercial numbness which originally plagued the Pale Fountains' calling; the review, Waterpistol, was recorded in 1991 at London's Star Street Studio, merely before retentive after the finished disc was assorted the studio burned to the ground, and the completed schoolmaster was lost in the hell. By chance producer Chris Allison had made a DAT copy of the album, only incognizant of the flame he incidentally left hand the tape in a rental car patch in the U.S.; upon returning to the U.K. and eruditeness of the studio's fortune he managed to contact the renting railroad machine ship's company and fork up the DAT, but motionless Waterpistol remained in oblivion until 1995, when it in close appeared on the German label Marina. By and so Shack had disbanded, however, with the Head brothers forming a new band, the Strands, and cathartic the chamber-pop masterpiece The Magical World of the Strands in 1997. The siblings reformed Shack presently later on with bassist Ren Parry and drummer lain Templeton, returning in 1999 with HMS Fable. |