Baker's Dozen

Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives

9. Pastels / TenniscoatsTwo Sunsets

I was up in Glasgow, Stephen Pastel gave me that record and it’s since become one of my favourites because it’s really nice to listen to lying down and relaxing. Sometimes that’s what you want from a record, you just want to let it wash over you, and I find that one does it in a very pleasant way. Pulp and The Pastels were in similar dire financial straits because we were both signed to this terrible label called Fire Records. We both got screwed through that, but that wasn’t what we bonded over. Stephen has an amazing record shop up in Glasgow called Monorail that’s been going for a while. I remember him starting that back when everyone was saying ‘well why would you open a record shop when that’s a dead format’, I think he was quite far-sighted there.  


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