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[384] - Dean Wareham - The Dancer Disappears (promo CD)
This is another Sonic Cathedral radio promo CD that I picked up on eBay for the sake of the collection. The Dancer Disappears was the first single from Dean Wareham’s self-titled album released in 2014.
Unlike the other single I bought at the time, this one is maybe a little more difficult to justify buying since it is a one track CD and contains only the album version of the track.
But, I think I can justify it because it has some lovely promo rubbish, I guess written by Nat at Sonic Cathedral!?, to try and convince the radio stations to play it:
It's a disco inflected ode to having one last big blowout, and sounds not unlike The Go-Betweens getting down with New Order and The Field Mice.
According to the BBC 6Music last.fm account The Dancer Dissappears was played three times on the station during April 2014.
There was a video to accompany the single, but was closer to one of those “FilmFinders” clips that used to turn up on The Old Grey Whistle Test back in the day than it was to a proper video.
- Catalogue Number: AHFOW 10/178
- Artist: Dean Wareham
- Title: The Dancer Disappears
- Notes: Radio promo
- Packaging: plastic sleeve
- Format: CD
- Bought from an eBay seller for £3.49