Samuel Grafton, a reporter for The New York Post, devoted a column to the record, which, he confessed, "has obsessed me for two days...
The 12 engravings were the first in a series of 119 prints published by the Society of Iconophiles, which was devoted to publishing a record of the city's architectural and cultural treasures.
Lovett had always intended to record country music, blues, ballads, gospel and church songs, rockabilly songs, folk songs, Western swing tunes, and songs with big-band arrangements, but he didn't think he could get away with having records devoted to a single classification, so he put them together, usually with half of a record devoted to a particular style.
You get the feeling, from the electronic curlicues, guitar-distortion and guttural dance beats that crop up throughout the album, that Coombes would have loved to ditch the choruses and devote the entire record to off-piste experimenting (the six-minute Universal Cinema, which begins acoustically and gradually cranks up the distortion, shows a musical mindset no longer informed by chart positions).
In 2010 he released the album Fé Na Festa, a record devoted to forró, a style of music from Brazil's northeast.
He would later in life devote years to recording his harrowing tale in a book of his war-time exploits.
A display devoted to the record album cover artist John Berg, who designed iconic covers for Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel and Bruce Springsteen among others, is running through January.
Mode Records describes itself as a "record label devoted to new music".
(If anybody does start a record store devoted to only Willie Nelson and The Fall, let me know. I have some holes to plug).
Matthew Friedberger, of the Brooklyn band Fiery Furnaces, has attacked Radiohead for "brazenly and arbitrarily associating yourself with… Mode Records describes itself as a "record label devoted to new music".
