This track and B-side Over The Brow are our only 24-track recordings, as most subsequent sessions took place at the 16-track Blackwing Studio in Southwark. After the austerity of Cool Snap we were hungry for more of a musical feast, and the Matrix and Barge studios with their racks of delays and reverbs gave us every opportunity.
The sleeve was partly hand-printed, a massive operation that took over a couple of rooms at 21 Manor Road for a few days.
No good reviews at the time I’m afraid…”lax and addled” was the conclusion of the bloke at the NME, along with the usual comparisons to other people. More recently, though, folks have been kinder: in 2013 Nerve Pylon was included in the massive Cherry Red compilation Scared To Get Happy and Alex Petridis at the Guardian singled it out as being “haunting”, like the man of taste and discernment that he undoubtedly is.
Rico's Reel 