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V/A - "... STILL SAD" 2xLP

V/A - "... STILL SAD" 2xLP

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LULU'S: The second instalment in a masterfully curated series of ‘Sad Music’ from the good folks @anthology via Mikey Young features a bunch of ‘melancholic, good natured’ artists traversing the AOR landscape. One of which was predominantly otherwise dominated by more commercially backed contemporaries of the 1970’s. Every track featured here is a desperate outpouring of longing, loneliness, regret, remorse & above all else…..sadness. The beautiful melodies, jaw dropping arrangements, deliciously tasteful licks & ginormous sounding choruses make this feel like Nashville & Yacht Rock bonding over shared experiences of heartache & a fondness for malt liquor. Any fans of Sweetheart Of The Rodeo-like nostalgia/the Numero Group’s Wayfaring Strangers comp should ready themselves for some tears on this one.


ANTHOLOGY: Keep that frown upside down. Following Sad About the Times, Anthology Recordings’ 2019 collection of melancholic music made by maudlin marauders who aspired for 70s AOR radio success but never quite achieved it, arrives ...Still Sad. A digital companion to its double LP predecessor, ...Still Sad adds to a general malaise that genuinely feels terribly right.

Compiled again by Mikey Young (Total Control / Eddy Suppression Ring) and Keith Abrahamsson (Founder / Head of A&R at Anthology Recordings), ...Still Sad scours the corners of cracked vanity presses and the fault lines of forgotten 45s to assemble another sixteen songs that cut to the heart faster than a maxed out credit card to a feeble pile of Florida Snow.

...Still Sad features music made in North America, mostly in the ‘70s, mostly by a bunch of bearded, good natured men. Scan the track list and you can almost hear the earth tones, and see the studio scene where these artists with nothing else to lose gathered to give everything they had in hope that these songs would be heard. Even if most of these songs are just now being heard, each one schleps the emotional baggage of four decades past to the present.

Though some songs on ...Still Sad veer from themes of loss or lament, there is still enough nostalgia to take any fool who falls for it on a roller coaster ride of regret and remorse. But don’t mistake ...Still Sad as a torture device for the unsuspecting listener, rather a front row view of the tortured heart. You’ll come out feeling better on the other side of streaming ...Still Sad, and the artists included on the compilation (well, at least those who made it to the other side) a fraction of a penny richer. 

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