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Forty Five EP
Rock · 1985 · 3 tracks

Forty Five EP

Happy Mondays

Raw, scratchy post-punk funk from 1985. A skeletal blueprint of the Madchester sound, defined by driving basslines and Shaun Ryder's deadpan grit.

September 1985 · Factory

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Imagine a Manchester basement in 1985, where the air is thick with smoke and the floor is sticky with spilled lager. This EP is the soundtrack to that specific moment. It does not have the euphoric highs of their later work; instead, it offers a jittery, rhythmic tension. The music feels like it is constantly trying to find its footing, stumbling into brilliant funk grooves only to pull back into a skeletal, post-punk chill. It is the sound of a band discovering their own chemistry in real-time.

Tracklist · 3 Tracks
01
Delightful
3:38
02
This Feeling
4:17
03
Oasis
3:40
Moments Worth Listening For
The skeletal funk of Oasis where the bass line carries the entire melodic weight.
Shaun Ryder's nonchalant vocal entry on Delightful, sounding both bored and dangerous.
The moment the percussion locks into a repetitive, hypnotic loop halfway through This Feeling.
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How does Forty Five EP sound next to the rest of Happy Mondays's catalogue?

Lo Fi+4.0σ

The production is built around lo fi than this artist usually allows.

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