Following on from my post of this tremendous synthy post-punk unit's Happiness And Contempt EP from two years earlier, here's their absurdly rare follow-up, that interim having seen them subtly shift their sound from the Nash The Slash-like slant of their debut, supplanting that album's snarkily profane and somewhat more fun loving (if jaundiced) thrust with something that feels both more rockist and more emotionally visceral; a trashy post-Velvets edge fusing here with elements of early Ultravox, Tubeway Army and Dark Day, it's more raw and primitive recording quality actually quite befitting the other aesthetic choices made here, whether it was intentional or not.
Note: Included in this upload are an additional four live cuts (tracks 7-10) which were originally included by the band on a private CDR reissue of this EP. I'd initially decided against it's inclusion as there's a decent bit of line noise evident, but it felt stingy not to make it available if I'm sitting on it and others want it. Just understand that it's a wholly separate affair from the contents of the EP proper...
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thanks for the nice post. however, as someone already pointed out, you continue to use it's in the possessive sense. we must safeguard the avant-garde from grammatical mistakes. or else all is futile.
ReplyDeleteStop the nit-picking. Its a troll, Eric. Pay no mind to it's need to make attention to it's self.
ReplyDeleteYes, nice post. I like this band. Iam curious if you have seen any material of the Seattle scene new wavers 'Sweet Madness', or their next band' Next Exit'. Very cool Devoish type stuff. And,yes, its' a troll. Iam not the best at grammar either, but that one was for it intentionally...
ReplyDeleteI give it a 6 out 8 tentacles. Got my ink flowing pretty well.
ReplyDeletesecond one what a great song.it would be never enough to say thanks to you.
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This is great. Thanks a bunch.
ReplyDeleteCheck out the Used's live session on PureVolume!
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https://www.purevolume.com/theused/videos/78785/Empty+With+You
Loving this one... thanks!
ReplyDeleteI've DLed all this band's records you have now, just gotta say thanks. What an amazing lost gem of a band.
ReplyDeleteJust listened it, good one, many thanks!
ReplyDeleteI love this and the other Null and Void thing as well. I would say that they were more than a little influenced by Bowie, as well as ultravox, but that stuff was in the air at the time. Hey, back then Bowie was actually good.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, what the hell does'rockist' mean anyway? This band does not sound like Foghat at all.
Hey, I was just wondering if you would mind reuploading this? The links are dead :( thanks so much for the time!
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