Beatglider - Dreaming of RoadsFormed in Southend in the late 90s, Beatgliders tale is a familiar one taking in early acclaim only for momentum and promise to be dashed by major label statis and indifference. After the release of the debut long player, 40 Days Of Summer, in 1999 the band signed to Sony subsidiary Lakota and decamped to LA to record its follow up, Dreaming Of Roads, an album that was never to see the light of day. And now, over 20 years later, Dreaming Of Roads

touring extensively worldwide and releasing two critically acclaimed albums This is PiL in 2012 followed by their 10th studio album What The World Needs Now… in 2015

I imagined them all dancing and laughing in slow motion

their Fire debut for Fire in 2013

Michael Nyman and John White

with poster and 7"

then forget all that & open yourself to something new

often short

from Mancuso's Loft parties

In celebration of Thrill Jockey‰۪s 25th anniversary and the album‰۪s 20th anniversary the band‰۪s 1997 debut is re-issued on vinyl for the first time

until a howling fuzztone solo guitar blows the whole onechord “Signed D

is the anti-thesis to your stereotypical singer-songwriter

She wrote it in a night of intentional sobriety