by karnsculpture on Sun Apr 12, 2009 3:59 am
Given the extremely poor state of physical format distribution in the UK I would take anything I could get in case it was weeks before I received the actual CD.
In the good old days (OK, the 80s) we would hear maybe 3 or 4 tracks from a new Sylvian album on the radio before release, so in my mind listening to a few tracks online isn't much different.
David will probably leak at least one track and possibly have excerpts of every track on his site anyway. Most of us will buy the album out of loyalty but most "normal" people (and we are not normal and I'm proud of that) would want to check out some of the sounds before buying.
I'm hoping for a SamadhiSound podcast or a specially mixed medley of tracks - they've done it before.
I am speculating that the album may include some spoken rather than sung work if David is moving away from "singer songwriter".
Paul
nightporter.co.uk