The Slits - Return Of The Giant Slits (1981)

Return of the Giant Slits is the second studio album by The Slits, released in 1981 by CBS Records on LP and cassette. In comparison with its widely acclaimed predecessor, Cut, released in 1979, it showcases a softer, more experimental sound, inspired by African music. Several months after its release The Slits disbanded.

The album was out of print for more than two decades until being reissued on CD by CBS Japan in 2004 and then by Blast First in 2007 with a bonus disc featuring alternate versions of songs from the album.

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Numbers - Add Up (1979)

The Toronto based Numbers were a straight-up power pop quartet that released their one and only album, "Add Up" at the crest of that genre’s movement in the late-70s/early 80. Arguably, their moniker was accurate, in that their approach was pretty much by…well, the numbers. Not withstanding their lack of innovation, they delivered an excellent batch of tunes, with the emphasis particularly on the jagged lead-off cut, “Sideways Elevator,” which was also released as a single. Elsewhere on Add Up, The Numbers proved they could go head to head with such contemporaries as The Records and Plimsouls, evidenced by the sublime jangle of “Leave It To Me,” and “Can’t Take It.”

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The Swingers - Counting the Beat (1982)

Swingers formed after vocalist Phil Judd left Split Enz in the late '70s. Judd puttered about New Zealand with a punk band called Suburban Reptiles until they broke up. Taking the Reptiles' bassist and drummer, the trio became Swingers and in 1980 recorded their first single, "One Good Reason".

"Counting The Beat" it's Swingers debut album, "Practical Jokers", but retitled for the US/Canada and given new artwork and a different tracklisting/order.

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Off Broadway

Off Broadway were a Chicago power pop band that signed with Atlantic Records in 1979 and had a minor radio hit with "Stay In Time." The band's debut album, On, almost cracked the Top 100, stalling at 101. It's a really good power pop record, Enuff Z'Nuff actually sound more like Off Broadway than Cheap Trick. The second single released from the album, "Bad Indication," was much better than the first single.
Off Broadway released a follow-up album, Quick Turns, on Atlantic Records in 1980 and continued touring for three years before breaking up in 1983.

Off Broadway - ON (1979)
Off Broadway - Quick Turns (1980)

Spherical Objects - Elliptical Optimism (1979)

Spherical Objects 'superior' second album. They must have shifted some units of the debut album, 'cus it sounds as if they went to a quality studio for this one. Whereas fellow Mancunian art-punks The Fall were sounding shitter in 1979, these boys went hi-fidelity, and even Disco(!) on a few of the tracks! Dunno if they were being ironic or not, if so its lost on me. That aside, this is a very inventive art-pop album in the Post Punk stylee.

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Spherical Objects - Past & Parcel (1978)

The Spherical Objects were one of those post punk groups formed by those leftie ex-student types in their mid-twenties, who were too old to be in a proper punk group like The Stranglers, who were Pub Rockers anyway.
They share much in common with The Desperate Bicycles, like a prominent organ, a singer with an awful bank manager tone to it, and made and financed their own records.
Object music was founded by singer and guitarist, Steve Solamar, and was responsible for many a great act to find its way onto vinyl for the first and last time.
The music is sort of a poor mans The Fall meets the Desperate Bicycles, and in accordance with the fashion of 1978, it was recorded and mixed in one day.

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Alesia Cosmos

Experimental post-punk from France, founded in the early 1980's. A wide-ranging and experimental outfit, encompassing everything from pastiche pop to pure avant-garde, they made two albums.

Alesia Cosmos - Exclusivo! (1983)
Alesia Cosmos - Aéroproducts (1985)