Red & Black Marble Colour

Tracklist:

1. Definitive Gaze
2. My Tulpa
3. Shot By Both Sides
4. Recoil
5. Burst
6. Motorcade
7. The Great Beautician In The Sky
8. The Light Pours Out Of Me
9. Parade

Real Life is the debut album by Magazine and a stonewall post punk classic and must own. It was originally released in June 1978 by Virgin. The album includes the band’s debut single “Shot by Both Sides”, and was also preceded by the non-album single “Touch and Go”, a song from the album’s recording sessions. Pressed from the 2000 remastered recordings, with a photo inner sleeve featuring an interview with Dave Formula.

Enduringly credible, Magazine have always been the connoisseurs choice and frequently name checked by some of the most gifted musicians of recent years including Radiohead, Morrissey, Jarvis Cocker, U2, Johnny Marr and MGMT. NME.com went so far as to included Magazine in a poll as one of the most influential bands of all time. Magazines front man, Howard Devoto co-formed Buzzcocks with Pete Shelley after the pair had seen The Sex Pistols in early 1976 and promoted the now legendary Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall gigs. Devoto left in 1977, after the seminal Spiral Scratch EP had been released, and created Magazine. Their first record was the post-punk anthem Shot By Both Sides. Leading the vanguard of post-punk, Magazines sound focused on the double barrels of Dave Formulas swirling keyboards and John McGeochs ahead-of-its-time innovative guitar work, underpinned by Barry Adamsons pulsing yet deviously irregular bass-lines. Atop of which came Howard Devotos lyrics. Aloof, articulate, tersely ironic and about as pliable as a garden rake. Too literary for the mass pop environment. Too poppy for the literary landscapes beyond it. Doomed to exist in that tiny, undersubscribed hinterland where artful wordplay meets the crunching riff. Real Life, Secondhand Daylight, The Correct Use of Soap, and Magic, Murder and The Weather. Four ground breaking albums and then the band parted company, leaving behind an influential body of work to critical acclaim. A fifth studio album, No Thyself, was released in 2011 following a 2009 reformation. The plaudits continued.