Heaven Sent
Josef K - The Only Fun In Town [TWI 052 UK 2020 24-Bit FLAC] After about ten years of planning to rip my original 1981 Postcard Records pressing of The Only Fun In Town , and each time abandoning my work due to the poor condition of the original. My Postcard edition is flimsy, crackly and quietly pressed ...three factors which do not contribute to a quality rip. I decided to invest in one of the three recent Les Disques Du Crépuscule pressings, all of which come with the same bonus album of early singles and a John Peel radio session. I really do wish labels would abandon their rush for coloured vinyl, especially given the lack of care in audible quality control by many of them, including LDDC. I would be surprised if this album was new to any of you, most of us grew up with Josef K and the other important Scottish bands who were once part of the Postcard Records stable. Their brittle, jagged and radiant post-punk guitar sound was borrowed by nearly all of the C86 generation ban...
