The 4th Movement - The 4th Movement (1980) + The Totally (1982)

Back in the early 1970s, three brothers from Detroit, Michigan formed the pioneering proto-punk band Death, having been spiritually awakened at shows by The Who and Alice Cooper. The band were headstrong, and refused pleas from Columbia Records to change their name to something that might not frighten a mainstream audience. Sadly this resulted in a lack of previously forthcoming support, and their seven tracks never saw the light of day until Drag City released …For The Whole World To See, eventually, in 2009!

The band broke up in 1977, despondent from lack of promotion, and rightly so – the energy fizzed from those seven songs, but this was the 1970s, and the world, apparently, was not ready for a black punk trio. So they regrouped, gathered their thoughts, and in 1980, released a follow up of sorts, under the moniker The 4th Movement. Various sources describe this offering as ‘gospel rock’, but to label it merely this way would be to do the band a grave disservice.



If anything, the roughly tamed edges of the brothers’ earlier incarnation often sound closer to The Jimi Hendrix Experience than anything else, though ‘The Christ In You‘ has that lazy summertime feel of The Style Council‘s ‘Long Hot Summer‘ and there is enough variation on this eponymously titled album to prevent them being half-heartedly pigeonholed under one banner.

‘The Build Up‘ – a fantastic tune – is reminiscent of the towering blues with which the Keef Hartley Bandmade their name in the late sixties, while ‘Key To Paradise‘ is about as jangly as you can get.

Of course, any artist willing to wear their faith on their sleeve so brazenly is bound to have its fair share of detractors; even Bob Dylan befell such a fate in his much maligned ‘born again Christian’ phase. Some folk, after all, associate religion, in one way or another, with all that’s wrong in the world today, but The 4th Movement never feels over the top in that respect. It comes across merely as three brothers truly wanting to spread their love as far and wide as they possibly can, through the medium of their splendid melodies.

Of course, ultimately attempting to appeal to such a limited audience from that point onwards, the brothers never made any kind of inroads towards becoming household names, but make no mistake, these are still strong albums.

Is The 4th Movement in the same league as their work as Death? Probably not. But one thing’s for sure – the music world was and is a better place with them in it.

The 4th Movement - The 4th Movement (1980) +The Totally (1982)

V-A - NAZIS RAUS! (1991)

V/A - NAZIS RAUS!(1991)

Gang Of Four — Happy Now (2019)

Leeds post-punks Gang Of Four return with their ninth studio album Happy Now.

Gang Of Four — Happy Now (2019)

Zwischenfall - Gestern Und Heute (compilation,1995)

Here’s a CD compilation of German new wave/minimal band Zwischenfall, who wrote some of the most underrated tracks of the ’80s. Several of the cuts on this collection are dance floor destroyers, especially “Sandy Eyes” (more of an italo cut), “Sacred Time,” “Atemlos,” and two versions of “Flucht.”

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Lè Travo ‎– Erring And Errant (1985)

Lè Travo is the brainchild of Patrick Bollen from Tienen, Belgium. As a teenager in the early 1980s, Patrick would visit "DeAtelier", the infamous coldwave/gothic club in Leuven. He would be inspired by Joy Division and other Factory releases, The Danse Society and Cocteau Twins. He gathered a some session musicians and a female backup vocalist. They recorded with live drums, TR-808 drum machine, Roland JX3P synthesizer, electric guitar and bass. Eventually Patrick bought a Greengate DE-3 sampler, using the brains of an Apple 2E with a keyboard bolted onto it. He crafted loops made from a deconstructed upright piano, hitting the strings directly with a drum stick. Lè Travo made their first appearance on a split LP with Fred A in 1984. "Erring and Errant" is their debut 7 song LP originally released in 1985. For the reissue 3 bonus songs from the split LP have been added. The songs are coldwave in the vein of Weimar Gesang, Opera Multi Steel, and Clan of Xymox. Guitar, bass and sample interplay with piano and synthesizers with dark and forbidding crescendos in the fast numbers, and elegaic melancholy in the slow tracks. The vocals are delivered with a sense of urgency, while the lyrics are inspired by avant-garde movements such as futurism and constructivism, as well as science fiction and existentialism. All songs have been transferred from the original reel to reels and carefully remastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. The vinyl comes housed in a glossy jacket with original artwork as well as a fold-out poster with lyrics and photos. Lè Travo is derived from French word "les travaux", which means : the works, a fitting name for this compilation of lost music from the Belgian underground.

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Television Personalities – Some Kind Of Happening Singles 1978-1989 (2019)

There have been a few compilations of the Television Personalities' singles and EPs, but it wasn't until the pair of sets put out by Fire Records in 2019 that they were presented in chronological order with the requisite rarities. Both Some Kind of Trip: Singles 1990-1994 and this collection, Some Kind of Happening: Singles 1978-1989, provide a service that's on par with the vital utilities like gas and water. Like those essentials, the songs and very particular world view of Dan Treacy are an absolutely necessary part of everyday life for fans of indie pop. Especially indie pop that is unsparing, spiky, endlessly melodic, and weird as a duck, because the TVPs are all those things and more.

This set traces the non-LP history of the band from their punky beginnings of hand-folded sleeves and John Peel endorsements to crashing mod revival and ultra-twee neo-psychedelia -- right up to the point where the band (and Treacy) seemed like maybe they had burned out for good. It collects their late-'70s singles for Rough Trade that made their name as shambling, witty, and sharp commenters on the scene. Songs like "Part Time Punks" and "Where's Bill Grundy Now" skewered the U.K. scene and deconstructed punk while creating their own little space where anything could happen. From there the band started incorporating '60s sounds into their approach. The lo-fi freakbeat "Smashing Time" is a brilliant early example of Treacy taking a familiar sound and turning it into something gloriously personal and strange, as is "King and Country," which cheekily borrows the guitar solo from "8 Miles High." They also delved deeply into oddball psychedelia on "I Know Where Syd Barrett Lives"; wrote smashing mod tunes like "And Don't the Kids Just Love It"; and as the decade progressed, they added some noisy muscle to their sound. 1986's "How I Learnt to Love the Bomb" has a creeping power and guitars that fill the room instead of scraping at the edges, and the lovely arrangement and aching melody of "Now You're Just Being Ridiculous" shows that Treacy's skill as a craftsman was only growing even as his personal life and the band were on the verge of collapse.

Adding to the officially released singles that make up the bulk of the collection, some nice rarities were added like the crash pop double shot of "Painting by Numbers" and "Lichtenstein Girl," recorded under the name the Gifted Children in 1981; a 1982 flexi disc released by Creation where the band does a credible cover of "Biff Bang Pow"; two singles that were slated to be released on Treacy's Dreamworld label in the mid-'80s but were shelved (not for quality issues!); and a rare single released on the Caff label in 1989. The singles plus the rarities make for a thrilling collection of music that works as a stand-alone confirmation of Dan Treacy's unrelenting genius or, when paired with the brilliant albums the band released at the same time, fits the pieces of the TVP puzzle together quite nicely.

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D.O.A. - 1978 (2019)

1978 is a 21 track collection of never released demos, rare tracks and early singles from Canada's punk pioneers. Joey Shithead went deep into the Sudden Death vault and came up with some super exciting and raw punk rock. The album title and art concept is spike haired nod of the head to that early, dynamic era of D.O.A. and to the seven great former members of D.O.A., who have passed on. Their spirit and talent played a huge role into launching the band into worldwide prominence. The two constants on the album are Joey Shithead and Chuck Biscuits who play on every track. From the start of 1978 you are drawn in by their wild, I don't give a shit approach to punk rock. Now some 40 years later you can hear it all, starting with the never seen light of day demo version of The Enemy. This demo has a different set of lyrics that speaks to fighting Nazis - strange, what is old is new and vital again. There's a ton of exciting tracks that range from the never heard before: Bored and Suicidal, The Mutant, No God No War, Rip Dis Joint, No Way Out and Rent-A-Riot to classic early singles like Fucked Up Ronnie, Disco Sucks, World War3, The Prisoner and Thirteen. You also get demo versions of America the Beautiful and Liar for Hire with Biscuits drumming, which are wildly different than the classic versions you hear on War on 45. On 1978 you hear the origins of hardcore and you get a full blast of D.O.A's politics and raucous humour.

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