Live document of this flash of lightning Scottish band at their peak.

Absolutely Kosher Records is exceedingly proud to announce the August 14, 2007 North American release of Life Without Buildings - Live at the Annandale Hotel. The album, recorded December 14, 2002, in Sydney, Australia, serves as the final document of the short-lived, much loved, highly influential
Glaswegian band. The sound of Life Without Buildings has vague parallels but they're elusive. The band seems to occupy its own real estate, both sonically and emotionally, a platypus in the mammalian world of post-punk. Vocalist Sue Tompkins' phrasing is shockingly unique, it's closest relatives are, perhaps, bird calls, as the two share a natural,pointed delivery, repetitive yet random, decisive but not at all showy. She spills breathless, tongue-tied joy over the tight, cyclical melodies of the band and it's like nothing you've ever heard on record.
Perhaps that was the problem. The band was a veritable bomb in a mineshaft and critics struggled with ol' reliable post-punk comparisons or else couldn't be bothered at all. Acclaimed writer Everett True begins his glowing review of this album in the latest Plan B with "I'll hold my hands up. Admit it shamefaced. This band passed me by." and closes it by calling Life Without Buildings "the finest early Noughties band I never wrote about."
Life Without Buildings formed in 1999 at the Glasgow School of Art and dissolved in late 2002. Their discography encompasses one studio album (the stunning Any Other City, released in 2001 by the Rough Trade-offshoot Tugboat), four singles, and now this live show, recorded far from home in front of a savvy
Australian audience. Live at the Annandale Hotel, recorded nearly five years ago, still sounds crisp and vital today. The last five years have seen support and admiration swell for the band. It's not so much that their sound needed to distill, but maybe it's just enough time for the rest of the world to catch up. All four members of the band remain creatively active and friendly. The album includes the previously unreleased song "Liberty Feelup."