Car Button Cloth (Deluxe Expanded ‘Clothbound’ Edition)

Car Button Cloth is an extraordinary affair of musical and emotional extremes, a soundscape spanning “the most beautiful piano-led mourning in the history of the broken heart” that switches into perky jangle-pop for fleeting moments and contains the ultimate self-deprecating classic ‘The Outdoor Type’, penned by Smudge cohort Tom Morgan, as well as a cover of the bluegrass standard ‘Knoxville Girl’ and ‘If I Could Talk I’d Tell You’ co-written with The Vaselines’ Eugene Kelly. All bases are covered.

To further unravel where Evan’s head was at during the period of its creation, this deluxe double album comes with a record of exquisite and typically eclectic scene setting covers that occupied B-sides and alternative format versions, plus other super rare offcuts, live takes and remixes. A diet of Volcano Suns, Glen Campbell, The Jacobites, The Sir Douglas Quintet and Whitney Houston influenced Evan’s thinking and added further colour to an album that remains something of a Dorian Gray-style masterpiece. The first side of extras is rounded off with the never before released ‘Arise’, originally set for the remake of Great Expectations and later realised as Rancho Santa Fe on solo album ‘Baby I’m Bored’.

Released: January 2025
Cat: FIRELP495B     
Label: Fire Records

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Tracklist

SIDE A
A1 It's All True
A2 If I Could Talk I'd Tell You
A3 Break Me
A4 Hospital
A5 The Outdoor Type
A6 Losing Your Mind

SIDE B
B1 Something's Missing
B2 Knoxville Girl
B3 6ix
B4 C'Mon Daddy
B5 One More Time
B6 Tenderfoot
B7 Secular Rockulidge

SIDE C
C1  If I Could Talk I’d Tell You (Single Version)
C2 The Outdoor Type (Remix)
C3 Pin Yr Heart
C4 Balancing Act
C5 Galveston
C6 Arise

SIDE D
D1 Keep On Loving You
D2 It’s All True (No Drums)
D3 Losing Your Mind (Live Acoustic Version)
D4 How Will I Know (Acoustic)
D5 I Don’t Want To Go Home
D6 Fade To Black
D7 Live Forever