Artist: Loose Ends
Title: Look How Long
Year: 1990
Label: MCA
Format: Vinyl LP (Original)
Flwrpt Rating of this Record: 4.0/5.0
Review
In my opinion, this is the BEST Loose Ends LP, ever! And original member Carl McIntosh completed this album all by himself. The drama? Well the other two members of the group (Jane Eugene and Steve Nichol) couldn’t get their ISH together, and had several creative differences with McIntosh and the group split. McIntosh kept the name Loose Ends, and proceeded to release 1990′s Look How Long, single-handed, with vocals from local talent that he scouted as the ideas for songs came to his mind. He produced, arranged, wrote, and coordinated this ENTIRE album. Now do you get the meaning of GRINDING?
McIntosh fused hip-hop breaks with synthesized sounds, and electric pianos to create this LP. I must add, the sound is light years ahead of its time and could survive in the soul/neo soul/r&b game TODAY. Period.
GO BUY THIS RECORD ASAP! That’s all I have to say…
Check out the sound!
Symptoms of Love
Don’t You Ever
Don’t Be A Fool
Design
As much as I love this album, the cover art sucks! The photography is bad, the typography is bad…the graphic elements are cheesy. The only props that I can give here is that the spacing is worked out quite nice, and I kinda dig the teal and gold color scheme. Sorry, but I had to be HARSH on this one.
Dear Mr. McIntosh, next time GRIND on the cover art, too!…
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2 Comments
loose ends…how i love thee, but didnt even know about this lp. Hanging on a string is my number 1 favorite song of ALL TIME!
once again dvb is the ish…
thanks amm aka ashley!
i remembered that you said that you loved loose ends one time when you were in bk.
peace.