Description:	Double LP on Drag City
	Format:	Double LP (vinyl)
	Genre(s):	Experimental / Abstract
	Label:	Drag City
	Price:	£13.69
	Availability:	In stock. Dispatched in 1 working day.

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...according to our Brett on 06 August 2009.

Sic Alps are kind of a weird one I think. A Long Way Around to a shortcut is a double vinyl version of a CD released last year, itself compiling tunes released in the previous years on various 7"s, 12"s, CDs and cassettes. It features a combination of their own tunes and tastefully chosen covers (from Throbbing Gristle, Strapping Field Hands and The Zipps) which all sound a bit like Daniel Johnston staggering about in a musical instrument shop with the lights off, rocking out the occasional tune between the clunks and scrapes. Super lo-fi's really all the rage at the moment, isn't it? This wouldn't feel too out of place on Woodsist or Siltbreeze but it's another Drag City bomber.

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Sound clips for A Long Way Around to a Shortcut by Sic Alps: on vinyl at Norman Records UK. Double LP (vinyl), Drag City, DC400, £13.69.

What their label says...

The new, first-time-ever-on-vinyl 2LP reissue of ‘A Long Way
Around To A Shortcut’ is somehow a greatest hits of the
golden not-quite-decade of Sic Alps. Well, not quite golden,
either. Can gold be tarnished? Can it be done on purpose? If
so, Sic Alps are artisans of the highest order - for their music
is the bright, surging sound of ye olde rock & roll radio (and
the garages that tuned in) heard through air darkened with
specks of nameless obstruction.

In and amongst their ingrown sounds, Sic Alps take on classic
tunes from Strapping Field Hands, Throbbing Gristle and
The Zipps on ‘A Long Way Around To A Shortcut’. It is to
their credit that they completely absorb their estimated
predecessors and create the only sound left to them: the
sound of the Sic Alps.

‘A Long Way Around To A Shortcut’ was issued as a CD in
2008. It collected songs that were first issued throughout the
epic years of 2006 and 2007 on two 12” EPs, three 7” singles
and a cassette, plus a song from a compilation CD-R and a
song exclusive to this compilation. The records were originally
given titles like ‘United’, ‘Strawberry Guillotine’, ‘Semi-
Streets’, ‘Hip-Hop Sweepers Vol 1’, ‘Teenage Alps’, and
‘The Soft Tour In Rough Form’, but all these original
releases are long gone.

Tracklisting:

Description Of The Harbor * Love Is Strange * Story Over There * Be A Song *
Message From The Law * Who Has Time To Protest? * Bells * The News Today *
Hey! Sofia - Dr Bag And The Pomade Nature Giants * United * Strawberry
Guillotine - Ratroq * The Drake * And What Came Next * Brill Building * Social
Strats * I Am Grass (Restored) * Latin * When You Tell It, Tell It Well * Texas (Is
The Right State) * C’mon Pup * Untitled/Digital Booklet/Deep Fruit * Arthur
Machen * Making Plans * Speeds * Microcastle