Where bought? 100% without a shadow of a doubt I bought this from Those Old Records in Rugeley. I'd been keen to visit Rugeley since I read an article about it in the Financial Times re: it housing the UK's largest Amazon depot. I'd also travelled up in the hope they had this Thinking Fellers LP they had listed on their website. They didn't, so I bought this instead.
While 'Round and Round' is seen as the big hit, on Spotify it has half as many listens as 'Baby', the Donnie and Joe Emerson cover and main single from this. Sadly, APHG released that on a 7" and didn't include it on the LP, though it found its way onto the CD and subsequent digital releases.
For most I imagine this renders the album unbuyable, but I actually rate this as his best in the era of 'acceptable recording fidelity'. Side A plays through like a dream with nary a miss on it, and while Side B is a little more esoteric and prone to novelty, there are exciting moments in each piece.
Ostensibly Mature Themes is a break-up record, though I can't imagine it becomes anyone else's break-up record. It is too scatty, prone to levity, mood-puncturing genre exercises, and musical excursion. No song directly refers to breaking up, and the atmosphere only loiters around fewer than half of the tracks.
Over time I think Mature Themes and its relative breeziness acts as a strange yardstick for the mindset of its creator. Famous in 2021 for being a Trump supporter and general nudnik, in 2012 he was saying things like "Our only hope is another human" and "I’ll go out and say any day that socialism is the way."
Absolute keeper. No point trying to sell it anyway. Buyer's market out there.
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