Mansun Attack of the Grey Lantern LP

Originally released in February 1997, the Platinum-selling Attack of the Grey Lantern debuted at Number 1 in the UK album chart & included the hit singles "Wide Open Space," "She Makes My Nose Bleed," "Taxloss" & "Stripper Vicar."

Mansun were one of the most iconic & innovative British bands of the late '90s. They released four classic albums - Attack of the Grey Lantern (1997), Six (1998), Little Kix (2000) & the compilation Kleptomania (2004).

As Draper puts it: "The Grey Lantern is like a comic-book hero - the album is about this village of people with really disgusting morals & the Grey Lantern sorts them out. I suppose the Grey Lantern's me. I wouldn't have a cape, but there are definitely characters on the record - Albert Taxloss, Chad, Dark Mavis. At the end of the album, it all gets resolved & you find Mavis is actually the Stripper Vicar."

Following the release of Frontman Paul Draper's solo album Cult Leader Tactics, Kscope are proud to present Attack of the Grey Lantern on standard black LP.

...[A]nything but a conventional Brit-pop record. Few debut records are this assured, especially when a group is developing such an idiosyncratic, individual style. Mansun recalls many artists - Suede, Manic Street Preachers, Tears for Fears, David Bowie, ABC, Blur, Prince - without sounding exactly like any of them. Attack of the Grey Lantern is a grandiose, darkly seductive blend of new wave and '90s indie rock, filled with phased guitars, drum machines, and subversive, off-kilter song structures... It's an ambitious...record, but Mansun has enough confidence and skill to make it an astonishingly original debut.