Will Anything Happen (LP)
The Shop Assistants
Amoeba Review
Will Anything Happen, the sole release from Scottish indie darlings The Shop Assistants, got a new coat of paint, so to speak. First, they remastered the original 1986 album. Next, they piled on the extras, such as B-Sides and Demos, Studio Outtakes, and 11 live tracks from 1987. Time has aged this album like a fine malt, with their singular blend of indie pop with hues of punk, new wave, and rock with an ethereal, dream-poppy-Cocteau-Twinsy thread throughout. Perhaps something would have happened had The Shop Assistants stuck together, but instead we have the ahead-of-its time Will Anything Happen as their musical star gone supernova.
Track Listing
Side A Titles |
Artist |
Length |
---|---|---|
1.
I Don't Want to Be Friends With You
|
The Shop Assistants | 02:16 |
2.
All Day Long
|
The Shop Assistants | 01:54 |
3.
Before I Wake
|
The Shop Assistants | 02:38 |
4.
Caledonian RD
|
The Shop Assistants | 02:11 |
5.
All That Ever Mattered
|
The Shop Assistants | 02:16 |
6.
Fixed Grin
|
The Shop Assistants | 02:49 |
7.
Somewhere in China
|
The Shop Assistants | 03:08 |
Side B Titles |
Artist |
Length |
---|---|---|
1.
Train from Kansas City
|
The Shop Assistants | 03:41 |
2.
Home Again
|
The Shop Assistants | 01:40 |
3.
Seems to Be
|
The Shop Assistants | 02:22 |
4.
After Dark
|
The Shop Assistants | 02:34 |
5.
All of the Time
|
The Shop Assistants | 02:21 |
6.
What a Way to Die
|
The Shop Assistants | 01:58 |
7.
Nature Lover
|
The Shop Assistants | 01:52 |