The Boo Radleys Giant Steps (Vinyl)

30th Anniversary re-issue of Giant Steps, the third studio album by UK band the Boo Radleys, originally released in 1993.

The title is inspired by John Coltrane’s album of the same name, and the record features an assortment of influences their previous shoegazing sound backed by pop, reggae, noise pop and orchestral sounds.

Guitarist Martin Carr had wanted to make an album that was more musically ambitious than the shoegaze sound they were known for. He said the rest of the band felt that no other act on the Creation Records roster were as competent as them.

Journalist David Cavanagh said the band used the studio as an instrument, “pushing back the boundaries” of music as Screamadelica by Primal Scream had previously done, “crashing from genre to genre” as if the Boo Radleys were making their own iteration of the White Album by the Beatles.

30th Anniversary 2xLP Edition

Tracklist:
I Hang Suspended
Upon 9th & Fairchild
Wish I Was Skinny
Leaves And Sand
Butterfly McQueen
Rodney King (Song For Lenny Bruce)
Thinking Of Ways
Barney (…And Me)
Spun Around
If You Want It, Take It
Best Lose The Fear
Take The Time Around
Lazarus
One Is For
Run My Way Runway
I’ve Lost The Reason
The White Noise Revisited