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Rhodesia | Obscure Alternatives | 1978
Not oft seen as a political outfit, Japan was Punk as the Pistols. Sylvian, teeth bare, against a jagged Reggae stomp, razor blade guitars, & Karn's 🔥 Funk. A satirical molotov of colonial critique, both dangerous & dreamy.
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Halloween | Quiet Life | 1979
Cold War agitprop as European Art Pop. A Glam Rock attack that owes more than a little to Roxy Music’s "Out Of The Blue," stalks & swaggers with haunted house chic & lipstick’d teeth - a clarion 🔥 that blooms from Berlin’s cracked shadow.
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