Cleaners From Venus "Under Wartime Conditions" 1985

The Cleaners from Venus are these four 67 year-old guys in a band who dress the same and look a bit like each other. They have loads of tawdry adventures, usually with a group of over made-up women a few years younger than themselves. As a consequence they often spend their free time in prayer and quiet contemplation trying to atone for a shared guilt which they find very difficult to process. - bandcamp
This is one of many Cleaners from Venus previously cassette-only releases from founding member Martin Newell, who formed the legendary lo-fi band Cleaners From Venus in the small town of Wivenhoe, England. One of Newell’s chief problems at this time, apart from constant money shortages, was finding musical collaborators who shared his own skewed pop vision. The absolute opposite of a musical perfectionist, the founder Cleaner believed that great pop was to be had by doing things quickly, in a slapdash fashion and by "fumbling around in the dark in search of happy accidents." - bandcamp
traxfromwax:
1 Summer In A Small Town 2 Johnny The Moondog Is Dead 3 Hand Of Stone 4 Drowning Butterflies... 5 Radio Seven 6 Fracas On West Street 7 Lukewarm Lovesong 8 A Blue Wave 9 Song For Syd Barrett 10 The Winter Palace Part One
Ripped from Vinyl by RYP with Audacity 3.2.1 : Thorens TD 318/Audio-Technica 95E - Yamaha A-S301 - Q Acoustics 3020i / Yamaha NS-SW050