April
21st marks the tenth anniversary of Loose Tapestries debut LP, The
Luxury Comedy Tapes. The album was issued as a digital download on March
2nd of that year, but a small run of 500 copies on vinyl were released
for Record Store Day.
Loose Tapestries was a collaboration
between comedy performer Noel Fielding and Sergio Pizzorno of the band,
Kasabian. They had come together to create the musical components for
Noel’s UK series, Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy. This first release
collects all the musical elements used for the first season with a
second collection issued in 2016 for series two. Kasabian touring
members Ben Kealey and Tim Carter also worked on the album.
Stylistically,
the music and audio snipers follow along a very psychedelic progression
completely consistent with the look and feel of the show, which was
like an even more strung out version of Pee Wee’s Playhouse. For the
album, brief musical segments are woven together with occasional spoken
clips from the show to create a kind of stream of consciousness
dreamlike flow. Among it’s many memorable oddities is perhaps the best
original birthday song to come along in decades in the form of “Ghost of
a Flea (Happy Birthday Song)”. It’s a hilariously bizarre, surreal
experience from beginning to end.
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