Release Date: 03 December 2021
Label: Cherry Red
Packaging Type: Box Set
No of Units: 5
Barcode: 5013929103405
Description
RE-PRESS: CD ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN 2017
Curated and designed by the people who brought you ‘Scared To Get Happy’, ‘Still In A Dream’, ‘Close To The Noise Floor’ and many more excellent and extensive box sets.
An intense journey through the shadowy underside of the UK’s post-punk alternative culture.
In the wake of punk rock, and after 20 years of carefully packaged pop and rock fantasy, cold reality finally kicked in the doors of the music industry. Overnight, a generation raised on aspirational boy meets girl tales, the clichés of rock ‘n roll excess and the unreachable otherworldliness of glam and progressive rock were freed to pour truth and their everyday experience into their music.
In no time at all, a dark, brutal sensibility crept into the UK’s post-punk wasteland, reflecting the political, social and spiritual situation. Thoughts and feelings that pop music had repressed for decades were at last unleashed as the anger, the frustration, the self- loathing and the disenchantment flowed. The instrumentation, imagery, appearance and attitudes varied wildly from tribe to tribe in this primordial, year zero atmosphere, but by the late 1970s a gothic sensibility had taken root which reset the boundaries of musical and lyrical expression forever…
Tracklisting
Kevin Ayers
Wrath
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Tigertailz
The Fall
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
Various Artists
