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Car Button Cloth’ is an extraordinary affair of musical and emotional extremes, a soundscape spanning the most beautiful pianoled mourning in the history of the broken heart that switches into perky janglepop for fleeting moments and contains the ultimate selfdeprecating classic The Outdoor Type, penned by Smudge cohort Tom Morgan, as well as a cover of the bluegrass standard Knoxville Girl and If I Could Talk Id Tell You cowritten with The Vaselines Eugene Kelly. All bases are covered.To further unravel where Evans head was at during the period of its creation, this deluxe double album comes with a record of exquisite and typically eclectic scene setting covers that occupied Bsides and alternative format versions, plus other super rare offcuts, live takes and remixes. A diet of Volcano Suns, Glen C&bell, The Jacobites, The Sir Douglas Quintet and Whitney Houston influenced Evans thinking and added further colour to an album that remains something of a Dorian Graystyle masterpiece. The first side of extras is rounded off with the never before released Arise, originally set for the remake of Great Expectations and later realised as Rancho Santa Fe on solo album Baby Im Bored.