The sounds, the rhythm and the pop structure. Three good finds today.
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Category: Post-Punk
Synthpop: Black Nail Cabaret, LisaWars, Lux for the Monsters (2016).
A dash of precision decadence in these dark times.
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Musician links, George Michael on Joy Division.
How to read sheet music, a chord progression arpeggiator and George Michael versus Morrissey and Tony Blackburn.
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Songs for “oh God can I hit Amazon in time” week.
BY THE CORROSIVE SPERM OF BAAL I SHALL RIP THY INTESTINES BODILY FROM THY CORPULENT BOURGEOISIE ABDOMEN WITH MY OWN CLAWS AND TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT.
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Your day’s video selection: goats, bats, Mel Brooks and Hitler.
A Christmas choir, Mick Harvey, Ken Russell and apposite commentary.
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Reviews: Soviet Soviet, Fossey, Nórdika (2016).
Shoegazy post-punk, synth pop and futurepop.
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Ganser: relentlessness by guitar.
Taut indie guitar rock, sparse but weighty; machine music by a guitar band with the proper relentlessness.
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Reviews: Tetrolugosi, Makoto Kino, A.D. Mana, Foretaste (2016).
sp00py theremin and keyboard, found sound loop atmospheric pop and some industrial bleep.
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The Pop Group: Y (1979), For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder? (1980).
The Pop Group are a singularity of post-punk awesomeness. Here, have their first two albums.
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Links: Jon Langford and the Sisters of Mercy, J. G. Ballard’s house, your headphones are listening.
Jon Langford’s time as a part-time g*th, J. G. Ballard’s house is for sale again and your headphones can be used to spy on you.
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A selection of early ’80s mopey post-punk aesthetic.
Selections from the early post-punk record collection. A Certain Ratio, C Cat Trance, Crispy Ambulance, Magazine, Section 25, Cabaret Voltaire. The aesthetic.
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Gary Clail’s Tackhead Sound System: Tackhead Tape Time (1987).
“Hard Left” remains chilling and apposite. The fascists and quasi-fascists haven’t changed in thirty years.
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Links: The Pop Group, the Birthday Party, Plastic Bertrand, Düsseldorf.
A new Pop Group album (and it’s good!), the last Birthday Party record, the truth about Plastic Bertrand and a book about Düsseldorf.
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Hip-hop and post-punk synthpop: Ich habe der fahr’n fahr’n fahr’n auf der Autobahn blues.
I don’t often see it noted just what was happening with early hip-hop and English and European synthpop in and from the post-punk era. Hip-hop histories gloss over it, and the reconstructed histories of techno somehow jump straight from about 1988 back to Kraftwerk, as if all that stuff from 1978 to 1984 never happened.
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J. G. Ballard and music. How to write the entire New Wave into being.
Post-punk’s favourite writer, who didn’t listen to music himself. It’s all about the imagery.
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Reviews: Crack Cloud, Night Trap, Ivy Fae (2016).
Angular post-punk, synthpop and witch house with songs.
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Reviews: Frustration, Logic + Olivia, Beborn Beton, Disjecta Membra (2016).
Back to the goth, industrial and punky post-punk, latest works from bands who’ve been around a while.
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A note on A. C. Temple.
Who else remembers late ’80s Blast First band A. C. Temple?
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Reviews: Black Arcade, Atlantic A.M., Bootblacks (2016).
Minimal synth darkwave with a fondness for Gary Numan, punky new-wave power pop and melodic post-punk with high bass.
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How to discuss rock music, with German Fall fans.
German Fall fans in a round-table discussion. Be sure to watch to the end.
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Reviews: Magana, Night Club, Cybercide, Brandenburg (2006, 2016).
Acoustic songwriter guitar rock, new wave disco, pounding futurepop EBM and Russian post-punk revival.
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Lost post-punk classics: That time A Certain Ratio were hanging out with Grace Jones.
Back in the day, A Certain Ratio were regarded by the outside world as post-punk no-hopers. So it was a surprise when Grace Jones, fresh off a hit with Warm Leatherette, took an interest in them …
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New Order, BBC Basement Studios “Saturday Live”, 25 August 1984.
New Order live in the studio for the BBC, simulcast on Radio One and BBC Two. Watch for Bernard missing his cue. And his terrible shorts, of course. And Hooky’s famed “gay sperm” bass cabinet.
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Post-punk links: More secret histories.
Michel Duval and various Crépuscule bands, Mark Reeder, Dominatrix, the non-white and non-male nature of punk and post-punk, the Fall and what to do with ex-punk survivor’s guilt.
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Rowland S. Howard and his albatross, “Shivers”. (And more.)
Rowland S. Howard plays his albatross “Shivers” on ABC TV Studio 22, 25 November 1999. The band is Rowland with Brian Hooper on bass, Mick Harvey on drums and Edward Clayton Jones on keyboard. And a lot more stuff.
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Hey, ho! Let’s go! Punk rock links.
Pavarotti’s “Blitzkrieg Bop”, Kill Your Pet Puppy retrospective, a contemporary punk novel, Manchester punk history, Czechoslovak punk history, Scottish post-punk history and a children’s picture book on punk. The secret histories.
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Reviews: Arsia Line, The Primary Colors, Lindy Vision (2016).
Black Native angular post-punk, psychedelic garage and some straight-up witch house.
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Post-punk: Belgrado, Radar Eyes, Rakta (2016).
Post-punk rock bands that aren’t quite g*th but are certainly leaning in that direction.
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All guitars: No Sister, Dot Dash, Susan, Strange Passage (2016).
Post-hardcore indie rock, punk pop, power punk pop and jangle punk.
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Pel Mel have a live album and a best-of coming out.
Pel Mel were an Australian post-punk indie-pop band who formed in Newcastle in 1979 and split in 1984. Like so many old post-punk bands, they’ve reformed in recent years, and have a collection and a live album out soon.
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