{"product_id":"glaxo-babies-nine-months-to-the-disco","title":"Glaxo Babies - Nine Months To The Disco","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eHalfway through making their debut album, Glaxo Babies lost their singer. Rob Chapman walked out of Crescent Studios in Bath in the summer of 1979 over artistic differences, and the four musicians left standing decided not to replace him. They followed the rhythm section instead. What came back sounds almost nothing like the sharp Bristol punk band that started the sessions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNine Months to the Disco\u003c\/em\u003e was cut in a single day, and it carries the loose, live, slightly unstable feel that implies. Tony Wrafter's saxophone and flute skid across the top while Tom Nichols and Charlie Llewellin lock into rhythms that owe as much to funk and dub as to anything on the punk shelf, with Dan Catsis and Tim Aylett filling the space between. Titles like \"Maximum Sexual Joy,\" \"Electric Church\" and \"Dinosaur Disco Meets the Swampsstomp\" give away the mood: long, loping, largely instrumental grooves that keep pushing past the point where a song would normally stop. Side A ends in a locked groove, which tells you how much faith the band put in repetition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eReleased in March 1980, it reached number 8 on the UK Indie Chart, and then the band came apart almost immediately. Wrafter, Catsis and Llewellin went on to form Maximum Joy, and Catsis had already played bass on The Pop Group's \u003cem\u003eFor How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder?\u003c\/em\u003e This record sits right in the middle of that Bristol crossover moment, when a handful of players turned punk energy toward jazz, funk and dub and quietly laid the groundwork for what the city became known for over the next decade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAn original 1980 UK pressing on Heartbeat Records, catalog HB2, engineered by David Lord with sleeve art by Danica Gacesa. Original copies do not surface often.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eUsed copy: VG\/VG\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Static ATX","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl","offer_id":47689456877730,"sku":null,"price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0633\/5024\/3490\/files\/20260920_155925.jpg?v=1789939417","url":"https:\/\/staticatx.com\/es\/products\/glaxo-babies-nine-months-to-the-disco","provider":"Static ATX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}