Name: The Raincoats
Brand: The Raincoats

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we2cd

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Rough Trade Essential

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2009-11-09

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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The Raincoats

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New Wave / Post Punk

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We ThRee

The Raincoats are a British post-punk band that was active from 1977 to 1984 and then reformed in 1993. The original line-up consisted of Gina Birch on bass, Ana Da Silva on guitar, Vicky Aspinall on second guitar/violin, and Palmolive (Paloma Romero) on drums. After the release of their first album in 1979, Palmolive left and was replaced by Ingrid Weiss.

Having released three studio albums, the band disbanded in 1984 but reunited in 1994 due to renewed interest. Anne Wood and Heather Dunn joined as new members to record a new EP and an album called "Looking in the Shadows," replacing Vicky Aspinall and Ingrid Weiss.

Influenced by bands like The Slits, Young Marble Giants, Delta 5, Au Pairs, Kleenex, Essential Logic, Pylon, Swell Maps, The Fall,and Josef K among others; The Raincoats have made a significant impact on the post-punk scene with their unique sound.

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A remastered, self released matt digipack with a 12 page booklet reissue of seminal post-punk combo The Raincoats' debut album originally released in 1979 on Rough Trade. This reissue comes with a bonus track - debut single Fairytale in the Supermarket plus some live footage from 1977 and 79 and the video of Fairytale from 1995. Formed in the late '70s by singer-guitarist Ana Da Silva and singer-bassist Gina Birch, the Raincoats recorded three albums with an evolving cast of players before splitting in 1984. Like the Vaselines, interest in the band from Nirvana's Kurt Cobain helped lead to a mid-'90s renaissance; Rough Trade reissued the band's three albums in 1994 with liner notes by Cobain, and the reformed Raincoats released a fourth album, Looking in the Shadows, in 1996, and have performed live sporadically since. a triumph of lo-fi amateurism over musicianship, the Raincoats took as their blueprint sound a harsh blend of clashing guitar, shrill violin and ramshackle drumming; but could still fashion songs of the most heart-breaking beauty out of such crude materials. Fairytale in a Supermarket is extraordinarily emotional; while a cover of the Kink's Lola sung by three girls flirts with sexual ambiguity.

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Discover The Raincoats by The Raincoats on CD. Remastered debut album with bonus track and live footage. Released on We ThRee label.