Kite Half-Speed Master Heavyweight Vinyl. This Heavyweight Vinyl in stock. For more check out all the official Kirsty MacColl merchandise & vinyl available for home delivery with Vinyl Records London, only £29 +P&P
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Kite Half-Speed Master Heavyweight Vinyl. This Heavyweight Vinyl is in stock. For more check out all the official Kirsty MacColl merchandise & vinyl available for home delivery with Vinyl Records London, only £29 +P&P Kite flew out in the world in the spring of1989, a whole decade after Kirsty MacColl had released her first single. It also came seven years after her last album, her debut,Desperate Character. In the interim, she had atop ten hitwith her harmony and jangledrenched version ofBilly Braggs A New England in 1985, an evergreen Christmas hit,1987s Fairytale of New York, withThe Pogues and two sons, Jamie and Louis, with her producer husbandSteve Lillywhite.Kite also contains flourishes of what was to come later for Kirsty. Dancing in Limbo hints towards her later works Latin flavours. Finale You And Me Baby prefigures the glorious soundworld of1993s Titanic Days. Throughout the album, there is a confidence that bristles and burns, the sound of a woman finally seizing the day and having her time.Reissued as anall analogue halfspeed master,remastered from the original tapes by Phil Kinrade at Air Studios, and featuring an exclusive lineressay from Kirsty MacColl expert and Guardian music critic Jude Rogers.
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