Last Updated 11/03/2024 07:22 PM EST
LOG IN
CART
Cart Items :
Sub Total :
artist
label
title
catalog #
any field
advanced
New Releases
Artists
Labels
Forthcoming
Best Sellers
Reviews
Jobs
soundclips
[All Countries]
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
Canada
Chile
China
Colombia
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
Egypt
Europe
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Korea
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nigeria
Norway
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Romania
Russian Federation
Scotland
Senegal
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Thailand
Turkey
UK
Ukraine
United States
Uruguay
World's Leading Terrorist State
World's Misleading Terrorist State
[All Formats]
Book
Cassette
CD
Clothing
Digital
DVD
MISC
VHS
Vinyl
[All Genres]
CLASSICAL
COMEDY
ELECTRONIC
EXPERIMENTAL
HIPHOP
JAZZ
Misc
ROCK
WORLD
artist
catalog #
label
title
any field
Tweet
Send Email
PRICE:
$34.00
$34.00
IN STOCK
ARTIST
TWELVE CUBIC FEET
TITLE
Straight Out The Fridge
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
SEALED RECORDS
CATALOG #
SEAL 025LP
SEAL 025LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
5/3/2024
Twelve Cubic Feet
, a clear case of a band which should have been bigger than
The Beatles
but, for some malignant reason, became a blurry footnote in the history of underground music. Formed from the ashes of
Exhibit A
in the spring of 1981, the band disappeared leaving no trace shortly after 1983. During their brief existence they released a series of stickers, a monthly newsletter, two cassette tapes and their incomparable
Straight Out Of The Fridge
10". Twelve Cubic Feet released this perfect 22-minute, seven-track album in 1982 on Namedrop Records (home to
Doof
,
Philip Johnson
, and
Cold War
and run by Philip Johnson and
12CF
guitarist
Paul Platypus
). It is a glorious scratchy DIY indie pop gem with a post punk spirit. The sound is naive and fragile yet very addictive. Based around jangly clean guitars, drums that are on the edge of falling apart, haunting keyboards and a female vocalist that has a knack for a golden pop hook. Hard not to fall in love with. It's beautiful with a ragged charm that deserves to be heard by the masses. The band played a lot of the anarcho-punk haunts of the early '80s -- Autonomy Centre in Wapping, Centro Iberico, and London Music Collective, and were equally heralded by punks (
Andy Martin
from
The Apostles
released one of their tapes) and the DIY music crowd. The line up changed after the 10" and they recorded a
Joe Foster
produced demo and fell in with
Alan McGee
's
Communication Club
crowd. Twelve Cubic Feet burned bright for just a handful of years and now it's time to burn bright again. Hopefully this reissue will help them reverse one of their sticker statements "today we're nobodies but tomorrow you'll know who we are." This reissue comes with the 16-page booklet that came with the original 10". Twelve Cubic Feet feature members who did time in bands such as
Khmer Rouge
,
The Reflections
,
Solid Space
, Doof, and
What Is Oil?
For fans of the
Marine Girls
,
Girls at our Best
,
Hornsey At War
,
Swell Maps
, and
Postcard Records
.
Other releases on SEALED RECORDS