11. Lijadu SistersHorizon Unlimited
We did a couple of series of podcasts, looking through my dad’s old records, and this was one that was pulled out, not by me, and I was immediately taken by the cover, which is just fabulous. You see the sisters on the road. You can judge a book by its cover and anyone who goes record shopping will know that you can pull a record out, look at it and know that it’s going to be awesome.
I’ve only recently discovered this record and became immediately smitten. It’s a really joyous thing. It’s an album that’s about very serious things, corruption and poverty, but they’re hilarious on it, and the sleeve notes are really funny. They’re being outrageous but making this beautiful record, which at the same time is making a statement and like a lot of the stuff on this list it is quite chaotic a lot of times, musically. It sounds like things are going out of sync. I love the drums on it. An ex-girlfriend of mine once said that all the music I like sounded as if it was recorded underwater and the drums on this are particularly like that, there’s this slightly underwater drum noise depth, it’s kind of wonky. But yeah, it’s a really joyous record. I guess of all the records on here it’s the liveliest and least miserable of the records.
