John Foxx bandmate and music box maverick Hannah Peel reveals the first and last records she bought and the one she always returns to
FIRST
Suzanne Vega
‘Solitude Standing’
(A&M, 1987)
My best friend’s older sister had this record when we were at school. I didn’t realise until now that it was released a long time before we found it, but it sounded so different to our ears. We would sing together for hours over the a cappella version of the single ‘Tom’s Diner’. This was the first album I bought on CD just as the only music store in Barnsley town centre, Our Price, closed down.
LAST
Vessel
‘Punish, Honey’
(Tri Angle, 2014)
I’m actually streaming this now. I went mental for this album when it first came out and it still surprises me. It’s about the only record lately that has pushed my mind into holes I didn’t think were possible through its sounds and feelings. It’s more like a foley electronic dance album: physical organic sounds from bikes and metal sheets and home-made instruments. It really fires me up for making more music.
ALWAYS
Cluster
Zuckerzeit
(Brain, 1974)
It’s like wiping a slate clean when warming up the speakers in the studio… it is there as a bubbling undercurrent when the audience enter before a show… it’s the cup of tea at the end of a day… it’s there for when you need distance from the world.
