The Listening Centre: Doubting Thomas The Infidel

 
This week's Listening Centre album pick to kick off your week is by Doubting Thomas. The release of their great dark and experimental album The Infidel was initially released in 1991. I remember coming across the cassette of this band in the mid-90s. I remember hearing them on the radio show that shaped music tastes for life called Brave New Waves , which back around the release of The Infidel, had a special on them and I believe an interview with a couple of the members (sadly I forget who, but assume one was cEvin Key who was interviewed so much on that show, with the many bands he was in, he probably lived in a room in the CBC). So, because of me aways having a tape in the player to record anything cool I heard on the radio show, I recorded a few tracks and the interview that night. I wish I had copies of these tapes still today! Sadly they are long gone. However if interested in Brave New Waves, someone has an archive of some of the show on Internet Archive here, and here. 

Anyway, I digress. The couple of songs I had recorded off this album was Father Don't Cry, Whitewax, and I.D.L if I recall. When I saw the tape of it, I quickly bought it, and was so happy to hear it in it's entirety. It didn't disappoint one bit. I lived with this tape for weeks, bringing it along with an extra tape to listen to on the daily commute. I loved the strangeness of it. How I could be sitting in the afternoon heat and sun of a summer day, and still have some of this album creep me out and make you feel a chill in some parts. 

I was looking around on Bandcamp a few months back and found that Metropolis Records out of Philadelphia, ended up releasing a special edition of this album there. I bought it and immediately fall back to the mid-90s when I had this. Some of the extra tracks on it are just as great as the first release on the label Wax Tracks. 

Here it is for you to enjoy. 

Having this now in my mp3 collection, still has a regular play from me. Especially the tracks mentioned above. They just take me back in time.