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Emerging from the incipient post-punk London scene with a healthy fascination for late-'70s
(and in turn, for his own attraction to Krautrock), the then-sextet kicked up a slightly monochromatic but still attractive storm on their debut.
's Thin-White-Duke-after-smoking vocal rasp has a surprising appeal, serving up a wry, slightly detached series of lyrics on life. The members of the core band, meanwhile, had clearly honed their chops well on-stage;
's lead guitar work avoids both wankery and simplicity in favor of a balanced, artistic power. Production mainly comes from
, who smartly steers away from the soon-to-be-cliched touches he would bring to
's early work.
is a good example; it has a brooding, quiet beginning with strange telegraphic signals and turns into a brawling rocker without sounding like
or
going off. The record comes off as serious without being self-consciously deep, occasional toe-dipping into humorous aside (
has
idly listing off things he loves, sometimes with appropriate if sarcastically delivered song quotes: "I'm in love with
...fly me to the moon...").
is the most frazzled, with lyrics detailing someone else metaphorically nailing himself up over a light but still strange guitar line.
is amusingly prescient as one of the first "white rockers go hip-hop" numbers of its kind, along with
's
though its inspiration could equally be dub.
lays down a pounding funk beat while
breaks into a midsong rap no better or worse than most such efforts of the time. ~ Ned Raggett