Singles Collection 1981-1983 (RSD UK, Clear Vinyl) (Vinyl)

Official RSD 2025 UK Release. Exclusive vinyl with the singles released by the Watford's punk band between 1981 and 1983. "At last, someone has collected all our singles from the early '80s and put them together in a sensitively thought-out vinyl package! If you are reading this you haven't picked up on Sad Lovers & Giants from big media, you've maybe heard of us from a friend or read something about us in a specialist music magazine, or maybe you were one of the 4,000 people who saw us play at the Visor Festival in Spain last month. Whatever your journey to this point in time you are most welcome to join our family. Before I began to write this piece I listened to some of the tracks and I admit there was a small tear or two as I remembered: Pet Sounds Studios, an eight-track reel to reel studio in a basement under a pet shop in Kennington, South London, our first studio experience as fresh faced 20 year olds. Surrey Sounds, a studio above a milk depot where Siouxsie and The Banshees had recorded singles, we got some studio time through the night when The Professionals weren't recording. Silo Studio in Hammersmith, the engineer was stoned, I smoked at least three packets of cigarettes during the session and having arrived at the studio with a song we believed in, we came out disillusioned and slightly underwhelmed; maybe greatness wasn't destined to descend upon us at that stage of our career. Spaceward in Cambridgeshire, an old school building turned into a professional recording studio, where we recorded our first album Epic Garden Music over a weekend working through the night with about an hour of sleep. We returned there to record our second album, Feeding The Flame which took two months rather than two days. But my moist eyes are not for the broken dreams, the incredible highs or even the camaraderie with fellow band members, all of whom I may add we are still in touch with. My slight sadness is for my lost youth and the courageous optimism of those early days so viscerally evoked by this collection of songs. The glory of the world fades but in reality Sad Lovers & Giants goes from strength to strength, albeit in a very understated English way mainly because that's the way we like it."

Track Listing:
A1. Imagination (From Clé EP - 1981 Last Movement Recorded at Pet Sound Studio)
A2. When I See You (From Clé EP - 1981 Last Movement Recorded at Pet Sound Studio)
A3. Landslide (From Clé EP - 1981 Last Movement Recorded at Pet Sound Studio)
A4. Colourless Dream (from Colourless Dream 7" - 1981 Last Movement Recorded at Surrey Sound)
A5. Things We Never Did (from Colourless Dream 7" - 1981 Last Movement Recorded at Surrey Sound)
B1. Lost In A Moment (from 7" Lost In A Moment/The Tightrope Touch 1982 Midnight Music - Recorded at Silo Studios, London)
B2. The Tightrope Touch (from 7" Lost In A Moment/The Tightrope Touch 1982 Midnight Music - Recorded at Silo Studios, London)
B3. Man Of Straw (from 12" Man Of Straw - 1983 Midnight Music Recorded at Spaceward Studios)
B4. Cowboys (from 12" Man Of Straw - 1983 Midnight Music Recorded at Spaceward Studios)
B5. Close To The Sea (from 12" Man Of Straw - 1983 Midnight Music Recorded at Spaceward Studios)

- Exclusive vinyl with the singles released by the Watford's punk band between 1981 and 1983.
- All of Sad Lovers & Giants' singles from the early '80s, together in a sensitively thought-out vinyl package.
- Official RSD 2025 UK Release.

• Released: 04/12/2025
• Format: Vinyl
• Label: Lantern Records
• Genre: Punk