Product Code: WET30281829
Original price was: $44.00.$26.40Current price is: $26.40.The Wild Swans are a post-punk band from Liverpool, England, formed in 1980 by Paul Simpson shortly after he left the Teardrop Explodes. Members of the Wild Swans have also been members of Echo & the Bunnymen, The Icicle Works, The Woodentops, The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Lightning Seeds.
Their second album, "Space Flower," is a fun, infectious, colorful album that came at a time when college rock was becoming increasingly dour and bland. It replaces the seriousness of the previous album "Bringing Home the Ashes" with unabashed, playful psychedelia. The cover features a large, sticky ball of pastel-colored candy - a perfect reflection of the contents. "Melting Blue Delicious", a groovy piece of bubblegum pop, was the first single. The album ends with the 10-minute, trance-like space-out "Sea of Tranquillity". He had played in the post-punk band Big in Japan with Bill Drummond (later Bunnymen manager and KLF member), Budgie (later drummer of Siouxsie & the Banshees) and Holly Johnson (later singer of Frankie Goes to Hollywood) and produced some of the first Bunnymen songs. "Space Flower" is essentially a guitar pop album and still sounds pretty fresh 36 years after its original release.
A1 Melting Blue Delicious
A2 Butterfly Girl
A3 Tangerine Temple
A4 Immaculate
A5 Space Flower
B1 Chocolate Bubblegum
B2 I'M A Lighthouse
B3 Magic Hotel
B4 Vanilla Melange
B5 Sea Of Tranquility
