First reissued in 2015, and recorded in 1988/89 after the collapse of Rose McDowall’s band Strawberry Switchblade, Cut With The Cake Knife gathers songs written for the group’s unrealised second album.
These recordings imagine a different path: McDowall pursuing luminous, hook-laden pop rather than the esoteric routes she later explored. ‘Tibet’ opens with heart-tugging immediacy, while ‘Wings Of Heaven’ and ‘So Vicious’ balance 80s grandeur with emotional vulnerability. The title track stands as the great Strawberry Switchblade hit that never was — radiant on the surface, shadowed beneath.
Positioned between her early pop success and later work with Sorrow and other underground collaborators, Cut With The Cake Knife captures an artist at a turning point. This edition also includes unpublished photographs, new sleeve notes and two bonus tracks drawn from the ‘Don’t Fear The Reaper’ 7”.
These recordings imagine a different path: McDowall pursuing luminous, hook-laden pop rather than the esoteric routes she later explored. ‘Tibet’ opens with heart-tugging immediacy, while ‘Wings Of Heaven’ and ‘So Vicious’ balance 80s grandeur with emotional vulnerability. The title track stands as the great Strawberry Switchblade hit that never was — radiant on the surface, shadowed beneath.
Positioned between her early pop success and later work with Sorrow and other underground collaborators, Cut With The Cake Knife captures an artist at a turning point. This edition also includes unpublished photographs, new sleeve notes and two bonus tracks drawn from the ‘Don’t Fear The Reaper’ 7”.
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