Till Another Time: 1988-1996
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When Linda Smith purchased a 4 track cassette recorder in the mid-1980s, it was not with the intention of launching a solo career. At the time, she was playing guitar in a band called the Woods, and thought it would be useful for sharing demos with her bandmates. In the end, the 4 track outlasted the Woods, but Smith had already started toying around with her own songs. The new hobby followed her from New York back to her native Baltimore, and over the next decade she'd release several albums worth of delicate, bewitching solo music on cassette. Till Another Time: 1988-1996 is the first retrospective collection of Smith's charmingly lo-fi music, situating her as a pioneer of the home recording boom that persists today. Sparse and gentle, Linda's music is tinged with lovelorn melancholy despite the sweetness of her voice. Over '60s pop-indebted melodies on tracks like 'A Crumb Of Your Affection', she delivers observations like 'I'd been so hungry for so long, I'd forgotten how to eat' with an earnest softness. Elsewhere, her voice takes on a post punk deadpan, as on 'I See Your Face' when she glumly repeats 'someone speaks and I hear your name.' The effect of both modes is a haunting charm, equally reminiscent of early Cherry Red Records and '60s y -y . This sense of timelessness was bolstered by Smith's no-nonsense approach to recording. She recorded almost all of her songs at home, using 4 and later 8 track tape recorders. There was a creative freedom that came with recordin
Tracks
1~1~I See Your Face1~2~In This
1~3~A Crumb Of Your Affection
1~4~All I Did
1~5~Till Another Time (Alternate Lo-Fi Mix)
1~6~Gorgeous Weather
1~7~I'll Never See You Again
1~8~I Just Had To
1~9~Imaginary Conversation
1~10~There's A...
1~11~Wandering You Know
1~12~I So Liked The Spring (1996 Version)
Details
Catalogue Number: CT335LPFormat: Vinyl LP
Artist: Smith, Linda
Release Date: 14 March 2023
Genre: Alternative
Label: CAPTURED TRACKS
Distributor: Rocket Group
