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Testament - Best Of

Wake

Testament - Best Of

Label: Factory Benelux

Genre: 80s Wave / Rock / Pop / Punk

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Factory Benelux presents Testament, a comprehensive ‘best of’ collection by influential Scottish group The Wake, including tracks recorded for cult labels Factory and Sarah Records.


NB The vinyl edition includes a 54 minute bonus CD featuring 21 early live and demo recordings from 1981/82, preserved in the tape archive of Joy Division/New Order manager Rob Gretton. Among these priceless lost recordings are 7 songs never before heard even on bootlegs.


The Wake formed in Glasgow in early 1981 after singer/guitarist Caesar left future pop stars Altered Images. Joined by Carolyn Allen (keyboards), Steven Allen (drums) and Bobby Gillespie (bass), the band joined Factory the following year, recording debut mini album Harmony at Strawberry Studios in Stockport and subsequently hailed as the missing indiepop link between Factory and Postcard Records. After Gillespie departed for Primal Scream and the Jesus and Mary Chain, The Wake issued second album Here Comes Everybody in 1985, with standout track O Pamela later covered by artful French ensemble Nouvelle Vague. 


After leaving Factory the group joined cult Bristol imprint Sarah Records, releasing a brace of indiepop singles and albums in the Nineties before going on hiatus. Caesar and Carolyn reconvened as The Wake in 2009, releasing fifth album A Light Far Out three years later, with more new material due in 2015.Testament combines key album tracks with popular singles including On Our Honeymoon, Something Outside, Talk About the Past, Of the Matter and Crush the Flowers. Also included are a previously unreleased 7” edit of Pale Spectre, and (on the CD only) 2012 outtake Clouds Disco.


The artwork for Testament is based on the artwork for an unreleased cassette edition of Here Comes Everybody, designed by Peter Saville.


Vinyl Tracklisting:


A1. On Our Honeymoon A2. Favour A3. Something Outside A4. Talk About the Past A5. O Pamela B1. Melancholy Man B2. Of the Matter B3. Pale Spectre B4. Crush the Flowers B5. Methodist


Bonus CD with vinyl:


1. Move With the Times 2. Communion 3. No More Green Space 4. Move With the Times (Reprise) 5. Move With the Times 6. Cold Home 7. Communion 8. No More Green Space 9. Patrol 10. Give Up 11. Careering 12. Favour 13. Cold Home 14. Forced to Think 15. Patrol 16. Give Up 17. Move With the Times 18. An Immaculate Conception 19. Chance 20. Judas 21. Company