Two Records on One Disc Means Close Lobsters Magic!
One of my all-time favorite janglepoppers from the C-86 scene were Scotland’s Close Lobsters. As big a fan of their music as I was, I often looked down at their record sleeves and wished they were more in tune with the joys behind them. I had to wait two decades, but I finally received my chance to make it so when offered the opportunity to package their albums “Foxheads Stalk This Land” and “Headache Rhetoric” together on one disc. Tackling the many challenges in merging two VERY different covers from the originals, I kept coming back to how much I enjoyed the very titles themselves. Once I knew that the words would be the playful heroes, this practically designed itself (with the help of a lot of x-acto cutting and pasting and a heaving old copier.)