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Placebo - Placebo [MOVLP1093 EU 2018 24-Bit FLAC]

Originally released an a very rare vinyl album in 1974 on Harvest Records, it is time to attempt a new rip of this album, released on white vinyl by Music On Vinyl a few years back. This rip is a significant improvement on my attempts back in February 2019.

MOV have used the Record Industry plant in Haarlem, NLD to press this version. We know that plant are capable of decent quality pressings (all those Be With/KPM library albums were pressed there), however this is on colored vinyl and we will have to get over a little bonus noise in the quieter sections. Still, this album is essential and no other label has the rights to release it in better quality. To be honest, the noise isn't all that bad, only sporadic and gives me some confidence to track down black vinyl versions of the other two Placebo albums.

Placebo was formed by Marc Moulin (out of Bruxelles francophone commune, Ixelles) in 1971 and has no connection with nineties cross-dressing alt.rock combo of the same name. Moulin went on to become a pillar of the Belgian music scene with Placebo, later as part of jazz-art-rockers Aksak Maboul (with Marc Hollander of The Honeymoon Killers) and then eighties synthwavers Telex.

Placebo's third album was self-titled and strikes a solid jazz groove with heavy funk elements, so much so that its hard to believe this came out of Belgium and not New York, Chicago or Washington. 

A1   N.W.

A2   Plotseling

A3   Bosso

A4   Dag Madam Merci

B1   Hop Hop

B2   Tanga

B3   Stomp

B4   S.U.S.