Small Time (album)
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Small Time is the second (and best[1]) album by British indie band The Servants. It was recorded in 1991 but had to wait twenty-one years for release in 2012 on the Cherry Red label.
Context
Cherry Red Records released Small Time in 2012, following the inclusion of the Servants' first album, Disinterest (1990), in Mojo magazine's 2011 list of the greatest British indie records of all time.[2]
Luke Haines remembers the painstaking recording of Small Time in his 2009 book Bad Vibes: "The demos are great, but the album never gets made".[3] In his sleevenotes to the finished album, Haines describes the songs as "looser, more mysterious, strange and beautiful, [. . .] and sounding . . . like nothing else really."[1]
Release history
Cherry Red Records issued Small Time in double-CD format in October 2012. The second disc - Hey Hey We're The Manqués - is a collection of first-album-era demos of familiar songs.[4]
Track listing
Disc one: Small Time
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Disc two: Hey Hey We're The Manqués
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Personnel
- David Westlake – vocals, guitar and bass
- Luke Haines – vocals, guitar, piano and CAT Octave VCO synthesiser
References
- Citations
- ^ a b Haines, Luke (2012). Small Time. London: Cherry Red.
- ^ Prior, Clive (2011). "100 Greatest British Indie Records of All Time". Mojo - Indie Special. p. 123.
- ^ Haines, Luke (2009). Bad Vibes. London: William Heinemann. p. 10. ISBN 13:978-0099522263.
{{cite book}}: Check|isbn=value: invalid character (help) - ^ Tyler, Kieron (2012). "The Servants: Small Time / Hey Hey We're The Manqués". The Arts Desk.
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