Talitres Holiday Sale 2020
For any purchase of €30 and over (excluding postage), a Talitres Tote Bag will be offered (after validation of the shopping cart, let us know which color you’d like: green or unbleached). These Tote Bags are, of course, also available for purchase.
Thank you for your support & your loyalty.
Our professions are not based on financial worth but on the seeds that we want to grow no matter what
We do share the anger of many booksellers. This feeling of helplessness is common to many professions, many freelancers. We’re under the impression that once again we must deconstruct what had been patiently and methodically built, that once again we will have to work while knowing that everything can be swept away by a virus.
Nothing is in vain. Our professions are not based on financial worth but on the seeds that we want to grow no matter what. Nothing is in vain, but at the rate things are going, it will be more than ever a supreme luxury to remain convinced of it.
However, while the discussion is focused on books, it seems that the character of the record as a cultural object still has a very long way to go. Yet the record is (also!) not a product like any other.
“And since it is beautiful, it is truly useful,” the Little Prince of St.-Exupéry told us. One would sometimes need to dive back into the freshness of childhood.
Music is for sharing. Between the Feldup’s inaugural song and the captivating "The Fading Light" by The Apartments, 10 tracks that have largely accompanied us in recent weeks. "The truth is a sinking ship" say the musicians of I Like Trains. We will not contradict them.
Talitres’ Favorites November 2020
01 Feldup - Century Long Fire [Talitres] 00:00
02 Destroyer - Cue Synthesizer [Merge Records/Dead Oceans] 04:46
03 Land of Talk - Footnotes [Saddle Creek Records] 08:44
04 Sufjan Stevens - From the Mouth of Gabriel [Asthmatic Kitty Records] 12:10
05 Stick in the Wheel - Drive the Cold Winter Away [From Here Records] 16:09
06 Car Seat Headrest - Martin [Matador Records] 20:18
07 SINEAD O’BRIEN - Taking On Time [Speedy Wunderground] 23:38
08 Them Airs - Reception Desk [Art Parade] 26:46
09 Kera - Vitamin T (Demo) [Mama Bird Recording Co.] 31:10
10 iLiKETRAiNS - The Truth [Atlantic Curve] 34:42
11 Cabane - Take Me Home pt. 2 (Raoul Vignal Music Remake) [Self-released] 40:54
12 The Apartments - The Fading Light [Talitres] 44:26
Cabane, "Take Me Home (Part 2)", Raoul Vignal remake
Original track is taken from cabane’s debut album "Grande Est La Maison"
"Grande est la maison" available on Bandcamp or any other digital platform.
The Apartments new album "In and Out of the Light", a celebration
In and Out of the Light is a classic Apartments album, with songs, lines and melodies coming back to you long after the music has stopped playing. The songs follow a set of characters who, in the aftermath of loss or simply the changes that turn up in everyone’s lives, have gone looking for some other way to live—and found it. Stories with the texture of this experience float through the intimate, reflective songs on the album.
The Apartments “In and Out of the Light”: 1. Pocketful of Sunshine – 2. Write Your Way Out of Town – 3. Where You Used to Be – 4. What’s Beauty to Do – 5. Butterfly Kiss – 6. We Talked Through Till Dawn – 7. I Don’t Give a Fuck About You Anymore – 8. The Fading Light
Album available at any good record store from the Talitres web store, via Bandcamp or on the internet this way.
((Yellow opaque vinyl, limited edition, 500 units (gatefold, 1LP, with digital download code)) now sold out via our webstore / Bandcamp but still available in a couple of indie record stores | Black vinyl (gatefold, 1LP, with digital download code) | CD digipack 2 panels with booklet | Digital.
“The 8 songs adhere to the model of stately chamber-pop established with The Apartments string of masterpieces in the 90s…with “What’s Beauty to Do?” a jangly throwback to the band’s Rough Trade period and “I Don’t Give a Fuck About You Anymore” an expression of lovelorn pique evoking a lost Sixties soundtrack by Michel Legrand.” Uncut 8/10
“Walsh’s greatest strength has always been telling intimate, affecting stories that feel tender without being mawkish. ‘In And Out Of The Light’ is no different, capturing the first steps that come after loss, buoyed by lush, gorgeous arrangements that unfurl around one another.” NME
"It’s the gift of evocation that floods our senses, the same gift that Apartments records have freely given from the off." Stereo Embers
Shinding ****
"A collection of eight songs that take beauty from heartbreak, and gather emotions to create a work of divine confidence." The Big Takeover
The birds have returned
"Since its initial release in 2004, Bluffer’s Guide to the Flight Deck—the debut effort from Flotation Toy Warning—has become somewhat of a cult favorite among the avant-pop set; a genre-swapping classic comparable to Flaming Lips’ Soft Bulletin and the Avalanches’ Since I Left You. The UK band spin their longform suites tightly and delicately as spiderwebs, connecting exotica-inflected ambient to psychedelic rock, Britpop to plunderphonics, downtempo electronica to acoustic folk. These rotating accoutrements, and the dynamic articulations between them, set a surprisingly smooth pace for the marathon-length tracks (9-and-a-half minute highlight “Donald Pleasance,” the ethereal two-fer “Fire Engine On Fire”). Sure, the arrangements dawdle now and again—Flotation Toy Warning are content to spend most of “Popstar Reaching Oblivion” basking in blurred synths—but they never durdle. My advice to prospective listeners: as with everything else in life, just go with it." Zoe Camp, Bandcamp.
2LP vinyls, gatefold, printed inner sleeve, comes with free download code.
Available from the Talitres webstore or Bandcamp.