Horses - 2015 European Arista Label 180 gram Vinyl 8-track LP - "We Are Vinyl" Series Reissue

2015 reissue of New York based writer and singer - originally released as punk was the musical fixture in November 1975.

It isn't hard to make the case for Patti Smith as a punk rock progenitor based on her debut album, which anticipated the new wave by a year or so: the simple, crudely played rock & roll, featuring Lenny Kaye's rudimentary guitar work, the anarchic spirit of Smith's vocals, and the emotional and imaginative nature of her lyrics -- all prefigure the coming movement as it evolved on both sides of the Atlantic. Smith is a rock critic's dream, a poet as steeped in '60s garage rock as she is in French Symbolism; Land carries on from the Doors' The End, marking her as a successor to Jim Morrison, while the borrowed choruses of Gloria and Land of a Thousand Dances are more in tune with the era of sampling than they were in the '70s. Producer John Cale respected Smith's primitivism in a way that later producers did not, and the loose, improvisatory song structures worked with her free verse to create something like a new spoken word/musical art form: Horses was a hybrid, the sound of a post-Beat poet, as she put it, "dancing around to the simple rock & roll song."

Pressed onto 180 gram vinyl - Includes a download code - picture cover featuring the original 

Tracklisting:

1. Gloria    (5:54)
a    In Excelsis Deo    
b    Gloria (Version)    
2    Redondo Beach    3:24
3    Birdland    9:16
4    Free Money    3:47

Side 2:
1    Kimberly    4:26
2    Break It Up    4:05
3.      Land    (9:36)
a    Horses    
b    Land, Of A Thousand Dances    
c    La Mer(de)    
4    Elegie    2:42

Recorded and mixed at Electric Lady Studio, NYC
Mastered at Sterling Sound Inc, NYC

Pressed at Record Industry, Izaäk Enschedéweg 13, 2031 CR Haarlem, Netherlands