Signs and Plaques

Love Travels At Illegal Speeds [VINYL]

Love Travels At Illegal Speeds [VINYL]

Love Travels At Illegal Speeds [VINYL] Following the Top 20 success of 2004’s Happiness In Magazines, Graham Coxon reunited with producer Stephen Street for Love Travels At Illegal Speeds. Originally released in March 2006, Coxon’s sixth solo album delivers a white-knuckle mix of ’70s punk riffs and anthemic, power pop choruses, with the likes of ‘I Can’t Look At Your Skin’ and ‘Gimme Some Love’ indulging a hitherto unexplored talent for classic rock guitar soloing. “I thought Love Travels At Illegal Speeds was better than Happiness In Magazines in a lot of ways,” says Graham. “Sonically, it was getting a...

A+E [VINYL]

A+E [VINYL]

A+E [VINYL] Inspired by a particularly memorable post-gig night out in 2011, Graham’s eighth solo album A+E jerked to the nu-rave shapes and post-punk angles of the wave of bands who’d later fall under the indie sleaze umbrella. On tracks like the throbbing ‘City Hall’ and ‘Meet And Drink And Pollinate”s robo-punk, Graham and producer Ben Hillier drew a line from the present back to late ’70s/early ’80s outliers Magazine, Wire and Cabaret Voltaire. “My band had played a gig at the sadly no more Leeds Cockpit, and there was this club night afterwards,” remembers Graham. “Everything they were playing...