Rough Trade
The Long Blondes - Someone To Drive You Home: 15th Anniversary Edition
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Rough
Trade
Records
announce
the
release
of
the
15th
Anniversary
edition
of
The
Long
Blondes’
debut
album,
the
acclaimed
‘Someone
To
Drive
You
Home’.
The
home
of
a
host
of
indie
disco
classics
with
its
noir
atmospheres
and
vivid
storytelling
-
qualities
that
saw
the
record
inspire
recent,
generation-
capturing
movie
‘Giddy
Stratospheres’
which
takes
its
name
from
The
Long
Blondes’
iconic
single
-
the
Sheffield
band’s
first
album
managed
that
rare
trick
of
capturing
the
2000s
zeitgeist
while
leaving
a
timeless
artistic
mark
for
the
ages.
Initially
inspired
by
the
frisson
of
the
indie
disco
-
now,
fittingly,
a
classic
of
low
lit
dancefloors
everywhere
-
‘Giddy
Stratospheres’
is
The
Long
Blondes’
sophisticated
calling
card.
A
swirl
of
razor-sharp
guitars
and
vivid
storytelling,
waltzing
melodies
and
burning
vocals,
the
Sheffield
band’s
2000s
single
fizzes
with
dancing,
desire
and
the
most
stylish
sing-a-long
you’ll
ever
hear.
The
Anniversary
edition
of
‘Someone
To
Drive
You
Home’,
which
was
originally
released
in
November
2006
and
was
produced
by
Pulp
member
Steve
Mackey,
comes
as
a
gatefold
double
LP,
pressed
on
to
red
and
yellow
vinyl
to
mirror
the
album’s
artwork
-
a
picture
of
actress
Faye
Dunaway
painted
by
frontwoman
Kate
Jackson.
The
edition
features
the
original
record,
plus
11
additional
tracks
that
the
band
used
on
B-sides.
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