The releases on AED Records continued into 2013:-
Gary McLure – Wreaths (album on CD and vinyl) : AED 0014
Vic Godard & Subway Sect – Caught In Midstream/You Bring Out The Demon In Me (7″ Single) : AED 0015*
Colorama – Do The Pump (EP on CD) : AED 0016
Charlie Clark – Feel Something (EP on CD and 10″ vinyl) : AED 0018
*This was the AED Records offering for Record Store Day 2013, which was on 20 April.
In the midst of all this, Edwyn’s latest studio album, Understated, his eighth in all, was released on CD and vinyl on 25 March 2013.
It had the catalogue number of AEDEC 0018, with initial copies coming with a 4-track live CD, entitled Common Sense, with the songs recorded at a show at the Bloomsbury Ballroom in London back in November 2009. It’s not technically a single, but it isn’t an album either. So, as a wee bonus today:-
mp3: Edwyn Collins – What Presence?! (live)
mp3: Edwyn Collins – Make Me Feel Again (live)
mp3: Edwyn Collins – Rip It Up (live)
mp3: Edwyn Collins – Losing Sleep (live)
As you may recall from last week, Down The Line, one of the songs on Understated, had been part of the box set released for Record Store Day 2012. Rather surprisingly, especially as the new album had been well received critically, and had sold enough copies to enter the chart at #66 on the week of its release, no single was ever listed from it. But there were a couple of tracks issued as CD promos, and given catalogue numbers. This was the first of them:-
#36: Dilemna : Edwyn Collins (AED Records, AEDEC19PROMO, 2013)
The opening track on the album. A rollicking and hugely upbeat number. I have no idea if there was a last-minute change of heart about issuing it as a single given that all involved had invested time, effort and resources on a promo video.
Filmed in the village of Helmsdale in the north of Scotland, where Edwyn had now made his home and to where West Heath Studios would later relocate in 2015.
I’ll return to the second of the promo singles in a couple of weeks time, but the next part of the series will feature a genuine one-off single.
THE NEW VINYL VILLAIN 