A Spare Tabby at the Cat's Wedding

by Moon Wiring Club

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1.	Autumn Theatricals 01:50	buy track
2.	Feline Ascension Time 03:27	buy track
3.	The Queen Speaks 03:06	buy track
4.	House of Tricks 01:09	buy track
5.	Woodsmoke & Treacle 03:27	buy track
6.	Slumberwick Dreams 03:29	buy track
7.	The Victorian Butter Boat 02:20	buy track
8.	Creeping Decay 03:11	buy track
9.	The Owd Wedding March 03:31	buy track
10.	Concealed Playroom 02:06	buy track
11.	You Fancy Magician 04:16	buy track
12.	Missing Familiar 01:27	buy track
13.	The Last Arcadian 03:40	buy track
14.	Curious Clairvoyant 03:09	buy track
15.	Dancing Against Time 04:17	buy track
16.	In Holiday Mood 03:34	buy track
17.	Seaside Frolics 01:45	buy track
18.	...And For My Next Trick 03:14	buy track
19.	Queen of Puddings 03:14	buy track
20.	Playroom Concealed 01:33	buy track
21.	The Garden Was a Picture 04:17	buy track
22.	Edwardian Romance 04:05	buy track

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Despite reaching album number four and already having had Simon Reynolds sing his praises on Blissblog and in the Guardian, we've never really had any of Ian Hodgson’s Moon Wiring Club releases available other than a rather excellent split 7" release for Ghost Box. Following on from an impressive amount of media attention and praise flowing from all the right places, his new album "A Spare Tabby At The Cat's Wedding" finally arrives and is no doubt destined to grace many a year-end chart. Tapping into the same H**ntological conceit of making use of half-remembered childhood memories and rewiring them for subsequent use in music, British producers in particular have tended to focus on the Radiophonic era with impressively evocative results. Alongside better-known sci fi fare such as Doctor Who and the Tomorrow People, public service broadcasts, children’s programming and all sorts of televisual oddities are where Hodgson takes his primary influence, building on the sounds he remembers growing up with and turning them into something almost contemporary. The fingerprints of the 70s and 80s are still present, but the smudged-and-sequenced beats are more reminiscent of early Boards of Canada, or indeed the new wave of operators like D'eon. But where many producers mine funk, soul and psychedelic records for samples, Hodgson exclusively bases his productions around this specific period of British television history.

Pieced together using a Playstation 2 program (itself now archaic technology) there is a beauty to the music’s almost naïve construction that lends itself perfectly to the end product. You can almost imagine this music being pieced together on old tape equipment, and through the limitations of the software, Hodgson has found his stride. The songs on ‘A Spare Tabby At The Cat’s Wedding’ (Hodgson’s fourth album under the moniker) never get overly complex or tricky, instead relying on the heaps of well-mined samples to speak for themselves. Voices tumble over voices creating a cloud of half-heard words, and VHS-tainted synths bubble up beneath them, dragging us right back into a world of thick-knit sweaters and Marathon bars. It's a record that truly succeeds in bringing our ever-more-distant memories to some kind of focus without discolouring them a jot.

Oh and it should be mentioned that the vinyl version of this album is completely different - despite sharing some of the same track titles - all the material is unique to each format. Anyone out there who’s got even just a vague interest in the Ghost Box label, Broadcast or any of the 80s tinged landscapes of Olde English Spelling Bee should check it out without delay...

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released November 8, 2010

All audio captured in the Curtain Draped Studio by Mr Paris Green and Dr Lettow-Vorbeck 1898-1981

Written and Produced by the Moon Wiring Club, at the Blank Workshop, Clinkskell, Northern England.

Mastered by Jon Brooks @ Newyattsounds

Sleeve design by Kynaston Mass

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