At the time, it seemed an implausibly laid-back outlook for the kind of projects Towns was engaged in then – hefty big band reworkings of Frank Zappa's byzantine classics, large-scale arrangements for singer Norma Winstone, orchestral suites for piano soloists.
Of course, there are myriad other benefits beyond hefty paychecks for bands willing to perform in such intimate circumstances.
With his rough-hewn voice and hefty accordion riffs, his band's one-chord grooves had a mesmerizing intensity that kept dance floors packed.
Although each section traced a similar arc, the particulars kept changing: low and reedy, piercing, hefty like a big band, lush and orchestral and finally a pristine open fifth whose growth pattern was left to listeners' imaginations.
That label was said to have faced bankruptcy partly due to the band's hefty production costs: Blue Monday became the bestselling 12-inch single in the UK after its release, but its high production costs meant Factory lost money on every copy sold of the original die-cast cut sleeve.
Perversely, it does suggest a Hefty bag.
My folks grew up in Detroit and besides those records, my mom used to play a hefty dose of James Taylor and The Band.
It's big band goes bass with a hefty dose of hip-hop – think J Dilla let loose on the Earth, Wind & Fire back catalogue.
The songs move through love, rebellious self-affirmation, a struggle to stay together and, at the end, a ghostly mourning.Six minutes of wordless sound at the end of the album, in billowing, burbling, sustained loops reminiscent of Terry Riley's late-1960's compositions, may be a glimpse of an eternal next world.The band refuses to let the hefty concepts weigh down "Reflektor".
The first one – for current single I Need You – cost a hefty £50,000 (with a hired helicopter with the band's name on the side thrown in) but looks the proverbial million dollars.
