GITHEAD - LANDING + HEADGIT (2LP)

Githead Landing + Headgit on 2LP

Previously unavailable on vinyl, this new and limited LP version of Landing is accompanied by a one-off pressing of Githead's first ever release, the six track EP Headgit from 2004. Long out of print, Headgit has, like Landing, never been on vinyl and will only be available in this special edition package. For the uninitiated, Githead are Colin Newman (Wire), Malka Spigel and Max Franken (Minimal Compact) and Robin Rim-baud (aka Scanner).

Githead has developed incrementally and organically: from the Krautrock-infused roots of 2004’s debut EP Headgit through an expansion in style and mood on first album Profile the following year, to the self-descriptive Art Pop in 2007, which was critically hailed as the band's zenith. Improbably, Landing goes one better. All the familiar components of Githead's distinctive idiom remain in place, Newman and Rimbaud's minimalist guitar patterns, their supremely catchy melodic sense, Spigel's propulsive bass rumble, Franken's solid, steady drive, but Landing broadens the band's vocabulary considerably.

Adding depth, texture and shading, this album’s ten tracks are somehow simultaneously harder, edgier, more expansive, more organic and more hypnotic. Crucially, though, while Githead might now be speaking a more sophisticated, nuanced language, they never once lose touch with their essential pop sensibility. It's this unique balance of convention and subtle experimentation that's always distinguished Githead from so many others attempting to plough the same adventurous avant-pop furrow.

Githead Landing + Headgit Track Listing

Landing

1.  Faster
2.  Take Off
3.  Before Tomorrow
4.  Landing
5.  Ride
6.  Over The Limit
7.  Lightswimmer
8.  From My Perspective
9.  Displacement & Time
10. Transmission Tower

Headgit

1. Reset
2. Fake Corpses
3. To Have And To Hold
4. Craft Is Dead
5. Profile
6. 12 Buildings