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- Summary: The 15-track demo was recorded in 1990 on 4-track cassette-tape machine with only the British post-punk band's Dan Treacy and Jowe Head.
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- Record Label: Fire Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Neo-Psychedelia
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UncutFeb 9, 2018Sometimes the honesty gets close to discomfiting, but it's always compelling. [Mar 2018, p.47]
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Feb 9, 2018Home-recorded between 1989-90 at Jowe Head’s Stoke Newington flat, Beautiful Despair finds Head and TVPs mainstay Dan Treacy gamely working through a clutch of the latter’s prickly and pallid compositions.
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Feb 9, 2018Unlike many lost albums of demos or unreleased recordings, Beautiful Despair actually stands alone as a really good, sometimes great TVPs album, and that's down to Head's recording and Treacy's reliably weird and wonderful songs.
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MojoFeb 9, 2018A poignant reminder of a talent that may have gone forever. [Mar 2018, p.102]
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Feb 9, 2018Beautiful Despair is a rough sketch, and its worth extends only as far as one’s interest in such a document.