Ally Craig

7" Single

1: GET WHAT YOU PAYS FOR
2: ANGULAR SPIRALS

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Angular Spirals / Get What You Pays For is a double A-sided 7″ single on black vinyl, self-released on 25th August 2008. A bonus CD-R is available with it, containing both sides of the record and bonus track Pilot Inspektor.

Ally Craig – guitar & vocal
Stephen Gilchrist – drums
Ruth Goller – bass
Pete Wareham – saxophone on side 1

Recorded at One Cat Studio.
Engineered and mixed by Jon Clayton.

David Murphy, OxfordBands.com:
“Believe us, we’ve listened to this single a lot, and we still find ourselves asking the same questions: What are these tracks about? Why are they shaped so unostentatiously strangely? Why are they so amazing? Why doesn’t Ally step up his release schedule, because he has it in him to make one of the great Oxford albums? Answers on a postcard.”
Full review.

Tom Parnell, Heavy Soil:
“Pacey, motif-led Get What You Pays For [is] characterised not only by Ally’s usual tightly percussive guitar, but also (in revelatory fashion) inspired saxophone work from Pete Wareham: flights of exotic birds circling above and around a grim cityscape.”
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Dale Kattack, Nightshift:
“Ally Craig is a singer-songwriter [...] but he has as much in common with the bleeding heart whinge’n'whine brigade who stifle open mic sessions as a B52 bomber has with a piece of stilton.”
Full review.