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LIGHTHOUSE FAMILY - Postcards From Heaven (reissue) - Vinyl (LP)
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9am-6pm GMT, Mon-Sat LIGHTHOUSE FAMILY Postcards From Heaven (reissue) Proper limited orange vinyl LP Cat: UMCLP 082
Rel: 16 Dec 24
Balearic/Downtempo Side 1 - Track 1. RaincloudSide 1 - Track 2. Once In A Blue MoonSide 1 - Track 3. Question Of FaithSide 1 - Track 4. Let It All ChangeSide 1 - Track 5. Sun In The NightSide 2 - Track 1. HighSide 2 - Track 2. Lost In SpaceSide 2 - Track 3. When I Was YoungerSide 2 - Track 4. RestlessSide 2 - Track 5. Postcard From Heaven
On reissued orange vinyl comes the debut set of sonic missives from house and easy listening via trip-hop heartthrobs Lighthouse Family; a miraculous birth for the duo of Tunde Baiyewu and Paul Tucker. This resplendent 1995 LP lay bare the pop dance musical sensibility of the time; string hit samples, synth funk basses, and a dark mode, prescient of the the leather-jacketed cool that would later peak on release of the first Matrix film. The code of cinematic chic is palpable here; songs that would otherwise qualify only as sparsely punctuated, pop lounge-funk come heavily tempered and assoiled by trilling, massive-attacked string backings ('Let It All Change', for example), producing a thrower-backer but still a classic record.
