[purlieu]

One of my favourite things about getting into Underworld was something totally of its time - looking at the sleeves in record shops and being really taken in by the weird artwork and wondering what they sounded like. Every Saturday I'd go down to my local indie and looking through the racks, spending loads of time leafing through the booklets of FSOL, Underworld, Orbital, Manics and Mike Oldfield albums, looking at the titles, wondering how they reflected the music. And then deciding not to save my money to buy one, but spending it on some shit CD single instead haha. But it built up a real sense of mystery and excitement around the albums that you don't get now.

And then going into a city and looking at the singles section and finding import versions of Pearl's Girl (with tracks not on mine!) and Dirty Epic/Cowgirl and them sticking in my mind wondering what they were like. Fun times.