| Following last year’s hugely successful vinyl reissues of much-loved Glasgow group, Del Amitri’s Waking Hours, Twisted and Change Everything, Proper Records, in collaboration with Universal Music Recordings, are delighted to make again available Some Other Sucker’s Parade, and for the first time ever on vinyl, Can You Do My Good? Some Other Sucker’s Parade is a fascinating addition to Del Amitri’s catalogue. Originally released on A&M Records in June 1997, the album captures a group secure of their success and gently kicking back against formula. The group, led by bassist-vocalist-writer Justin Currie and writer-guitarist Iain Harvie, had become equally known for their gentle pop and acoustic ballads as their jangling melodic rock. Overseen by Breeders producer Mark Freegard, the album was broadly recorded live and has touches of Crazy Horse and The Faces about it. Acoustic guitars were banned. The harmonious onslaught paid off: Some Other Sucker’s Parade – complete with its much-loved singles “Not Where It’s At” and “Some Other Sucker’s Parade” – entered the charts at No 6 in the UK. “I really love the record, because it’s probably our least pretentious,” Currie said in 1998. By 2002, the pop world had turned; four years earlier, Del Amitri had released Hatful Of Rain, their greatest hits collection marking more-or-less a decade of success. After a 48-month hiatus, the group returned with a new sound and a remarkable, yet almost entirely overlooked album. Can You Do Me Good? relied on keyboards, samples and drum machines as much as previous albums centered on electric and acoustic guitars. For example, The ballad “One More Last Hurrah” slips into drum’n’bass – a long way it seemed from “Nothing Ever Happens”. Not that there weren’t lots of guitars on it, either – “Drunk In A Band” is a fabulously daft slice of early 00s rock. Featuring its soulful lead single “Just Before You Leave”, Can You Do Me Good? is truly fascinating, and could well have been the group’s biggest album ever had it come five years earlier. “I’ve got cash and prizes, but I don’t know who I am,” Currie sings on “Cash & Prizes”; and the song seems to encapsulate the album. Some Other Sucker’s Parade is presented with scrupulous attention to the detail of the original UK first pressing and available in audiophile 180gm vinyl, while Can You Do Me Good? has been assembled painstakingly for its first ever outing on LP.#### |
| PRE-ORDER HERE UMCLP118: https://del-amitri.lnk.to/someothersuckersparade UMCLP119: https://del-amitri.lnk.to/canyoudomegood |
