Can - Delay 1968Can was founded in 1968 by Irmin Schmidt, Holger Czukay, Michael Karoli and Jaki Liebezeit who formed a group which would utilise and transcend all boundaries of ethnic, electronic experimental and modern classical music. This classic album of tracks recorded at the beginning of Cans life, and features original vocalist Malcolm Mooney. Thief is now a rejuvenated Can classic having been covered by Radiohead and since then discovered by a new generation

It was first performed by Steve Reich

Even if we weren’t living through extraordinarily troubling times

The album initially sold 40

cellos and melancholic melodies

Danny Snow on double bass

Presented in its original iconic artwork

but Langhorne conjures beauty from the pain

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the band gathered influences from sources such as the Jean Michel Basquiat exhibition at the Barbican and the post punk sound of The Fall and Sonic Youth

Live in Studio Recording for CBS Album Deal

mercurial tonalities and charged

spinning around in Leicester Square or spinning out on the dancefloor