Sold Date: February 25, 2021
Start Date: February 14, 2021
Final Price: £13.70 (GBP)
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Martin Stephenson & The Daintees Gladsome, Humour & Blue 1st Press LP Gatefold Sleeve and Inner 1988 VG+. Condition is "Used".

FREE FOR UK - Will Post Worldwide, but only International Tracked & Signed - I’ve put 25 Pounds as a benchmark price Worldwide - But contact me first before paying to let me know where you are in the world and I will work out a price for you and change the price accordingly.
 
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VINYL = VG+ Record surfaces may show some signs of slight wear, but they don't affect the listening experience and are of a cosmetic nature only. I have cleaned and play-tested both sides of the record and it plays really well and still sounds great!

SLEEVE = VG+

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I'm selling a lot of my vinyl and CD collection, because the kids are getting bigger and the house is getting smaller! Basically, it was either the kids or the records, sadly the coin came down tails...Thanks for looking!

ONLINE REVIEW
An album of haunting subtlety, Martin Stephenson & the Daintees' Gladsome, Humour & Blue is not the sort of record that reveals all of its charms on the first spin. Indeed, at first the album sounds merely pretty, with Stephenson's delicate vocals and mostly acoustic folk-tinged melodies occasionally listing toward being simply twee. But after a few listens, Stephenson's masterful lyrics become more apparent. Not content with the sort of solipsism that masquerades as thoughtfulness for most singer/songwriters, Stephenson isn't afraid to tackle big themes -- honor, death, fidelity, stuff like that -- but he does so gracefully, using artfully chosen metaphors that rarely ever spell out their deeper meanings. Similarly, the songs tend toward almost subliminal musical accents that are, in Phil Spector's apt phrase, "felt rather than heard." Proto-ambient songstress Virginia Astley guests on a few songs, as does Neil Conti of Kitchenware labelmates Prefab Sprout, and Gladsome, Humour & Blue finds Martin Stephenson & the Daintees pitched artfully between those two artists, but forging their own musical direction.