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Stick Figure Neighbourhood was the first album by the Burlington band Spoons. Released in 1981, it received some airplay on college stations, particularly the songs Conventional Beliefs and Red Light. It was their next album, Arias & Symphonies, and its best known single, "Nova Heart", that were to launch them to fame. Not quite a frenetic and freaky as that wild first 45, this LP is also worth investigating. Lots of nice stripped down synth sound, none of the lush commercial sound that was to come on their next LP.
As Gordon Deppe mentions in his liner notes for Collectible Spoons, this collection of songs "is a bit rough around the edges, but there are things on it that are still very interesting and perplexing."
Gordon Deppe: vocals, guitar
Sandy Horne: bass, pedals, vocals
Rob Preuss: synthesizer, piano
Derrick Ross: drums, percussion
Hugh Syme: mellotron on "For Tran" and "Only for Athletes"
Produced by Graeme Pole
Recorded by Daniel Lanois at Grant Avenue Studios, Hamilton, Ontario
Liner notes collectively thank fellow contemporary Toronto bands The Diodes, Martha and the Muffins, and concert promoter Gary Cormier of "The Garys".
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