Post-Punk – Page 4

Reviews: Massenhysterie (2015), The Big Sun, Dyan (2016).

24 August, 201621 September, 2016 Goth, Indie, Industrial, Pop, Post-Punk, Record 0

Shouty electropunk, indie pop and cinematic folk.

Dark wave: Voight, LisaWars, Dear Deer (2016).

20 August, 201621 August, 2016 Goth, Post-Punk, Record 2

Fine American, German and French post-punk sounds. With video!

Electronic reviews: Boy Harsher, Syrian, Kuoko, Metroland (2016).

9 August, 201619 August, 2016 Indie, Industrial, Pop, Post-Punk, Record 0

Post-punk synth, futurepop and synthpop.

Reviews: nTTx, Foot Spa, Kites With Lights, Stars Crusaders, Kepler.

12 July, 201614 October, 2016 Indie, Industrial, Pop, Post-Punk, Record 0

Two industrial, one post-punk, one synthpop, one indiest indie.

The Laughing Clowns “Holy Joe” (1980).

26 June, 201626 August, 2016 Post-Punk, Record 0

An old favourite, the first track from the Laughing Clowns’ first album, just after Ed Kuepper split the original Saints.

Don’t forget the existence of My Dad Is Dead.

21 June, 201614 October, 2016 Post-Punk 3

Back in The Day™ (1989), everyone compared My Dad Is Dead to Joy Division. Really, every review. Like they couldn’t think of anything else to say.

New Order: Music Complete (2016).

17 June, 201625 August, 2016 Post-Punk, Record 1

At almost sixty-five minutes, New Order’s tenth studio album Music Complete. On vinyl it is provided as an impressive heavy-grade double album with an abstract cover design by Peter Saville, which reminds one of True Colours by Split Enz or a 1980s L’Oreal advertisement. With no sense of embarrassment, the album also includes a twelve page booklet of blank pages and uncoloured designs. This ill-considered use of the planet’s declining arboreal biomass can possibly amuse children for a couple of hours as they provide a more interesting expression of colours. As is the fashion with albums these days a digital download code is also provided.

Links.

16 June, 201625 August, 2016 Indie, Links, Post-Punk 0

“If you think it’s about the music, you’ve already failed.” The pop culture legacy business, and why Kurt Cobain is still a huge star.

New Order and the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Sydney Opera House, June 4, 2016

10 June, 20161 January, 2017 Classical, Live, Post-Punk 0

The concert hall of the Sydney Opera House is, of course, one of the world’s great venues. Filled to capacity of over two-and-half thousand the audience were displaying an enthusiasm that would continue throughout the night. Although older on average, there was a fair sprinkling of younger faces indicating that the reputation of one of the world’s great electronic and synth-pop bands was still continuing.

No: Once We Were Scum, Now We Are God (1989).

6 June, 201625 August, 2016 Industrial, Post-Punk, Record 0

This is the finest album by the great Australian band No, featuring Ollie Olsen when he was still angry, before he discovered MDMA and made Third Eye. It’s a live album. I got the record when it came out in 1989 and played it every day for a few months. Invigorating and cheering music that will brighten your soul.

The Mark E. Smith Guide to Writing Guide.

3 June, 201620 May, 2017 Post-Punk, Radio, Writing 0

In 1983, Mark E. Smith of the Fall went on Greenwich Sound Radio and, between being interviewed and playing records, gave them his definitive guide on how to write.

My problematic favourite: William S. Burroughs.

29 May, 20169 May, 2018 Opinion, Post-Punk, Writing 1

I admire old Bill for all sorts of things, none of which are his personality, murdering his wife, fucking up his son or misogyny so jawdropping he literally made it into an artform. I wonder what signifiers wearing a Burroughs shirt would have in 2016 as opposed to 1996 (“yeah yeah you’re hip go away”) or 1986 (“who?”).

Shriekback: Without Real String or Fish (2015).

23 April, 201625 August, 2016 Post-Punk, Record 0

For a band formed in 1981, Shriekback have certainly had a couple of notable breaks in their productive career.

The fall of The Fall

25 March, 201628 August, 2016 Live, Post-Punk 0

This review has been sitting in the ‘to post’ box for a while, for reasons that will become evident.

If you’re gonna do martial industrial music, at least make it really gay. Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft.

15 October, 201514 October, 2016 Industrial, Post-Punk, Record 0

DAF were a Neue Deutsche Welle (New German Wave) band, covering the time from when NDW meant hideous post-punk noise to when it meant cheesy pop. Funnily enough covering a similar arc themselves.