Stereophonics: Performance and Cocktails (CD)

Raw, confident, and packed with anthems, Performance and Cocktails is the album that catapulted the Stereophonics from promising Welsh rockers to one of Britain’s biggest bands. Released in 1999 and shortlisted for the Mercury Music Prize, this second record finds Kelly Jones at his storytelling best — painting vivid, often darkly comic portraits of small-town life, restlessness, and human contradiction. From the swaggering pub-rock stomp of The Bartender and the Thief to the plaintive longing of Just Looking and the epic, slow-burning Pick a Part That’s New, the album never lets up in quality or conviction. Gritty, melodic, and bursting with working-class soul — essential British rock.

Tracklisting: Roll Up and Shine · The Bartender and the Thief · Hurry Up and Wait · Pick a Part That’s New · Just Looking · Half the Lies You Tell Ain’t True · I Wouldn’t Believe Your Radio · T-Shirt Sun Tan · Is Yesterday, Tomorrow, Today? · A Minute Longer · She Takes Her Clothes Off · Plastic California · I Stopped to Fill My Car Up

CD in great condition.