Bruce Woolley & The Camera Club - English Garden (1979) [Reissue 2009]
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 395 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 135 MB | Covers - 30 MB
Genre: New Wave | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Cherry Red Records (CDMRED 427)
EAC Rip | FLAC (image+.cue+log) - 395 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps (LAME 3.93) - 135 MB | Covers - 30 MB
Genre: New Wave | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: Cherry Red Records (CDMRED 427)
This nifty little record slipped under the radar in 1979. It is composed of tightly wound, keyboard driven new wave and an edgy sounding vocalist, just the kind of thing that everyone expected of the period's next charge of the British invasion. What set "English Garden" (the UK version of this album) apart was the pedigree. Woolley was a founder of The Buggles and a co-writer of two of their best known songs. The band also included a little known but inventive keyboardist named Thomas Dolby.
Most of the songs here are pretty good, and Woolley takes those two signature songs and works them out in a way that suggest why he split from Horn and Downes…he rocks them instead of machinates them…