Name: Desperate Straights
Brand: Slapp Happy / Henry Cow

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2008-04-08

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Shellshock

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

Total Cap

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Slapp Happy / Henry Cow

Genre GB

Prog Rock

Label GB

henry cow definitive reissue series no 4. in 1974, henry cow took a sabbatical while it considered what to do next. slapp happy meanwhile was planning its second record for virgin. one night the trio showed up at the quartet's door and proposed that the two groups make the second slapp happy lp together. so slapp happy was making eccentric pop songs and henry cow was composing complex epic instrumentals - and 'desperate straights' was the result. it's still a gem now properly re-mastered (by bob drake), its sound closer to the original tapes even than the earlier vinyl pressing.

Desperate Straights

Music GB