Scritti Politti - Anomie & Bonhomie (LP, Album, Reissue)

Description

Scritti Politti are a British band, originally formed in 1977 in Leeds, England, by Welsh singer-songwriter Green Gartside. He is the only member of the band to have remained throughout the group's history.Beginning as a punk-inspired collective of art students and squatters, Scritti Politti released several early post-punk recordings on Rough Trade Records before transitioning into a mainstream pop music project in the early to mid- 1980s, enjoying significant success in the record charts in the UK and the US. The group's most successful album, 1985's Cupid & Psyche 85, spawned three UK Top 20 hits with "Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)", "Absolute", and "The Word Girl", as well as a US Top 20 hit with "Perfect Way". The band's 1988 album Provision was a UK Top 10 success, though it only produced one UK Top 20 hit single, "Oh Patti". After releasing two non-album singles in 1991, as well as a collaboration with B.E.F., Gartside became disillusioned with the music industry and retired to south Wales for more than seven years. He returned in the late 1990s, releasing a new album, Anomie & Bonhomie, in 1999 (which included various rock and hip hop influences). In 2005 Rough Trade released the compilation Early, which collected the band's first releases. In 2006 Gartside released the stripped-down White Bread, Black Beer.

Release Info

Artist: Scritti Politti
Label: Rough Trade
Format: LP, Album, Reissue
Country: UK
Label: Rough Trade
Released: 2021-07-30
Genre: Electronic, Hip Hop, Rock, Pop
Style: Indie Pop, Hip Hop, Downtempo, Indie Rock

Tracklist

A1 Umm
A2 Tinseltown To The Boogiedown
A3 First Goodbye
B1 Die Alone
B2 Mystic Handyman
B3 Smith 'n' Slappy
C1 Born To Be
C2 The World You Understand (Is Over + Over + Over)
C3 Here Come July
D1 Prince Among Men
D2 Brushed With Oil, Dusted With Powder