Catch As Catch Can＜Clear With Blue Splatter Vinyl/限定盤＞

キム・ワイルドの83年3RDがスプラッター・ヴァイナル仕様でLP再発!

1980年にデビュー、ロックンロール・シンガーの父MARTY WILDEとTHE VERNONS GIRLSのメンバーだった母JOYCEとの間に生まれた英国出身のサラブレッド・ポップ・ロック歌手、キム・ワイルド。ヒットシングル"LOVE BLONDE"をはじめ、"DANCING IN THE DARK"などを収録した1983年リリース3RDアルバムが限定ヴァイナル再発!!

オリジナル・アナログ・テープからリマスターされ、オリジナル・アートワークを忠実に再現。美麗ポートレート・ショットと全歌詞が掲載されたインナー・スリーヴ付属!

Kim Wildes third album is a key transition point in her career. Catch as Catch Can is probably Wildes most experimental album, a continuation of the dark-hued synth rock feel of Select with hints of the more commercial dance-pop sound that would characterize the rest of her career. Certainly the first single, the gimmicky, campily strutting big band-meets-rockabilly Love Blonde, is the oddest single of Wildes early career. Elsewhere, the genuinely beautiful ballad Can You Hear It (probably the prettiest song Wilde recorded to this point), Sparks, and the cold as ice ballad Dream Sequence have an atmospheric tinge, thanks to hazy backing vocals and diffused, dreamy synths. Other songs like the opening House of Salome and the stuttering Back Street Joe point toward the purely electronic Hi-NRG disco sound that would characterize 1984s Teases & Dares, and indeed pretty much every Kim Wilde release thereafter. The juxtaposition of styles makes for an uneven listen thats hard to latch on to entirely. The energy of her debut album is sorely missed, though the maturity and richness of the arrangements nearly makes up for it and when she goes purely pop, like on the lovely Sing It Out for Love, it hard not to wish she had swung in that direction instead of towards the dancefloor. ~ Stewart Mason