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The Scritti Politti LP was originally released in 1982.
Rough Trade will release a remastered edition of Scritti Politti’s debut album Songs To Remember on April 10th.
“Mark E Smith, a Rough Trade artist at the time once said to me, ‘Scritti have the best rhythm section in rock music’,” Geoff Travis has remembered.
He didn’t mention Green Gartside, so I don’t know what he thought of him. I do know that at Rough Trade we were all in thrall to Green’s honeyed voice and his brilliant lyric writing. These were heady days when the amount of sheer talent walking into the Rough Trade universe was simply overwhelming. None more so than Green who epitomised the intelligent assault on the citadel of pop music perfection.
“I remember being very proud of Songs To Remember during a time when it was still a fairly new experience for us to be releasing full albums into the world.”
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