Luke Haines

Today’s Yesterday Album – ‘HOW I LEARNED TO LOVE BOOTBOYS’ – Final LP By THE AUTEURS (1999)

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Remarkable albums from the past

27 September 2023

Band: THE AUTEURS (London, UK)
The musical project of musical mastermind Luke Haines

Album: HOW I LEARNED TO LOVE THE BOOTBOYS

Released: 5 July 1999 – fourth and final LP

AllMusic wrote: “The most refined of England’s bands manages to refine itself even further on their 4th disc. How ‘I Learned to Love the Bootboys’ is Luke Haines’ most immediate sounding release to date, and even though his claim that each of the record’s 12 tracks are singles sounds a bit highfalutin, he’s not far off… The cohesiveness of the record is no small feat, given the wide-ranging sounds and moods.” Score: 4.5/5 – Full review here.

TUTV: Haines designed 12 colorful stories, 12 affecting tunes, 12 compelling pop pearls.

Single/clip: The Rubettes (yes, the Sugar Baby Love group)

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LUKE HAINES: Instagram

LUKE HAINES (Auteurs) & PETER BUCK (R.E.M.) Share New Single ‘PSYCHEDELIC SITAR CASUAL’

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New striking strokes

12 September 2022

LUKE HAINES (mastermind of former Britpop-rock outfit The Auteurs and R.E.M. guitarist PETER BUCK have their second collaborative album, named All Kids Are Super Bummed Out on 26th October.

The duo stated this about the record on their website: “It feeds LSD to a broken Moog synthesiser. Luke Haines sings songs about God, provides an occasional strum on his guitar, and blows Pan’s flute,” “Scott McCaughey (The Young Fresh Fellows) plays the bass and mellotron and Linda Pitmon (The Baseball Project) bangs the ritual drum. Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith Group) drops in and has a nightmare in the key of doo-wop.”

With that statement they also shared the first single, titled
Psychedelic Sitar Casual. A psychedelic jingle-jangle rocker
that sounds as a, yes, early R.E.M. cracker.

HAINES & BUCK; Website