The Apartments - The Evening Visits….And Stays For Years (Remastered & Expanded) (1985/2015)
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 530 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 183 MB
1:19:55 | Folk Rock, New Wave, Pop Rock | Label: Captured Tracks
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks, cue, log) - 530 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 183 MB
1:19:55 | Folk Rock, New Wave, Pop Rock | Label: Captured Tracks
After releasing a brilliant single by the Apartments on their Able label in 1979, the Go-Betweens almost added the band's leader Peter Milton Walsh to their lineup, but ultimately it didn't work out. "Walsh is night," said Grant McLennan. "We are day," added Robert Forster. After some more false starts, Walsh re-formed the Apartments and set about proving the duo right. Signed to Rough Trade after impressing them with a demo, the Apartments' debut album from 1985, The Evening Visits…and Stays for Years is a dark, brooding affair that features Walsh's idiosyncratic vocals and lyrics that hint at major emotional upheavals, or at least some very deep feels. Walsh's biting croon is balanced by layers of jangling acoustic and electric guitars and the occasional strings and horns, with a production style that calls to mind that of his former mate's concurrent work