Any Way

Perhaps the Bolshoi's finest kitchen sink melodrama however was their single, 'Away'. A tale of small-town middle England lives, of teenage pregnancy and casual cruelties. Disguised as a gothic rock anthem, 'Away' had all the style and swagger of a 'She Sells Sanctuary' or 'Wasteland', but far more substance and pulled off every pout, sneer and pirouette with perfect class and disdain.

Obviously written by a fan…

The Bolshoi were dominated by Trevor Tanner's sardonic, half-spoken baritone and lyrical paranoia, displaying his jarring knack for almost-mundane, real-world imagery rather than atmospheric abstractions. Tanner's writing conveyed the authentic angst of the lower middle-class grammar school boy, the loneliness of the English Literature A-level student, putting the Bolshoi much closer to the actual concerns of their audience. This ability to craft convincing Middle English psychodramas was so completely opposite to my world growing up, that I immediately fucking hated them and all they cared to put to record…

Ripped to a stupidly large 24bit DVD quality FLAC file by BurningTheGround.net, this 12” single sounds just like a 12” single should sound when downsized to MP3 to play on your media players.

The Bolshoi; Away 12” (Special Mix)

A.     Away (Special Mix)

B1.  Away (Un-Edited Version) (Live Length)

B2.  Razzle Dazzle (Live Length)