Gavin Clark - Beautiful Skeletons [2LP]

Format: 2 x LP
Catalogue No.: AC3011061
Barcode: 0603375110611
Release Date: 28 Feb 2025
Genre: Indepenent

Reissue -  500 copies on 180g "greenpower" black vinyl, double gatefold thick reverse board outer, black paper inners.
 
Beautiful Skeletons is a 22 track collection of songs spanning nearly two decades from Gavin Clark, erstwhile player and songwriter in Sunhouse, Clayhill and musical collaborator with visual director Shane Meadows.
 
Initially released on 26th May 2014 as a double vinyl album, 'Beautiful Skeletons' is a wonderful collection from the Gavin Clark songbook and has been collated by Shane Meadows from an original archive of some 290 songs that he has saved over their twenty year friendship. As he says himself ;"Gavin Clark is the reason I gave up on my band and on any hopes of a career in music when I was 17 years of age. I heard him play one day in a friend's kitchen in Uttoxeter and the second he sang I quit. The songs maybe spread out over 20 years, but they are bound together by their simplicity, their honesty and most of all his voice. It's peerless and so is Gavin."
 
Track Listing
SIDE 1
1 - Crazy
2 - Spinning Round The Sun
3 - Hurricane
4 - Black Blood
5 - Crazy On The Weekend
SIDE 2
1 - Elaine's Place
2 - Never Came For Us
3 - Spotlight For Sunshine
4 - Stems
5 - The Russian
6 - Calling In The Cards
7 - The Years Have Loved Us
SIDE 3
1 - When We Had Faces
2 - Painted Glass
3 - Raise A Vein
4 - Open & Shut Case
5 - Low Are The Punches
SIDE 4
1 - Never Seen The Sea
2 - The Lost Choices
3 - Roll Away Remain
4 - Bermondsey Stutter
5 - I Dreamt Of God