Innersections - Tap Dancer in a Minefield (1980)

Experimental avantgarde jazz-fusion post-punk that drive you mad.

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Television Personalities - Beautiful Despair (2018)

A lost album from the UK post-punk greats, recorded circa 1989, sheds light on the creative process of brilliant, troubled frontman Dan Treacy.

In his prime, Television Personalities frontman Dan Treacy was perhaps the most unconventional figure in post-punk. Indeed, the usual procedures of writing, recording and performing music seemed to bore him so much he could hardly be bothered to try. In concert, Treacy refused to write setlists or announce titles, leaving his bandmates to identify each new mystery song as he launched into it; Television Personalities rehearsals, meanwhile, were virtually nonexistent. “I remember us rehearsing once in late 1983,” Treacy’s friend and collaborator Jowe Head recalled to The Brag in 2016. “We did another one five years later, and that was about it.” So averse was Treacy to the obligatory drudgery of being a musician that it sometimes seemed as if he’d prefer to do anything else. “In fact music is probably not the right medium for me to express myself,” he confessed in an interview in the mid-’80s. “I like films and books more.”

But music was what he chose. Over more than 30 years and nearly a dozen celebrated albums, Treacy expressed his suffering with his music until the suffering overwhelmed him. (He expressed his joy and humor when he felt them, too, but the pain won out.) In the ’90s, he vanished for more than half a decade, whereabouts unknown: it would later transpire he’d been serving time on a prison barge, convicted for shoplifting. Addiction tormented him. In 2011, after a short-lived mid-aughts comeback, he disappeared again—this time owing to a blood clot in the brain that required extensive surgery. Since then, reportedly, he has been recovering under professional care in a nursing home. With not much prospect now of new music, the arrival of a lost Television Personalities album would seem to be cause for celebration—we’re getting more Dan Treacy just when we need him.

Beautiful Despair was recorded at Jowe Head’s flat at Glading Terrace in Stoke Newington over a number of sessions in 1989 and 1990, after the release of the acclaimed Privilege and before the recording of the mid-career classic Closer to God—the latter of which contains so many of these songs in more complete form that it seems more accurate to describe Beautiful Despair as a first draft of Closer to God than a proper standalone LP. It is a true “lost album” in one literal sense: Head admitted recently that he had “mislaid the tapes” from these sessions and simply happened upon them while looking for something else. But it is not as though 48 minutes’ worth of never-before-heard vintage Television Personalities material has been unearthed after all these years. Beautiful Despair is a rough sketch, and its worth extends only as far as one’s interest in such a document.

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The Defects - Feed The Good Dog (2017)

‘Feed The Good Dog’ is the third studio album from Belfast punk legends The Defects since they reformed in 2010.

The Defects may still arguably be best known for the original incarnation of the band’s one and only album, the wonderful ‘Defective Breakdown’ in 1983, but the current incarnation have built a fearsome reputation of their own through incendiary live shows and the previous albums, and this one can only build on that.

‘Feed The Good Dog’ pretty much picks up from where 2015’s rather fine ’45 Minutes’ left off, so if you liked that one, you’re guaranteed to like this one.

Opener ‘Another Promise Broken’ sets the pace with a fast and furious approach, echoed in tracks like ‘The Wisdom Of Norman’, ‘Made To Break’, ‘Third Time Lucky’ and ‘Theatre Of War’, all packed full of the kind of political and social commentary you’d expect from The Defects.

Best of the bunch for me is ‘Hunter Versus Hunter’, a punchy and very catchy tune with a killer chorus that would make an ideal single if bands still did that sort of thing, and later on it’s reprised as a great slice of dub reggae in the shape of ‘Action Junkie’.

The groove-laden ‘Arch Enemy’ and ’30 Billion Dollar Swindle’ add a different, twisted rock flavour to the album, whilst the closing track ‘Brotherhood Of Death’ is another highlight for me, once again a bit more in the rock direction with some powerful riffing. It’s tracks like these that show there’s a little bit more to The Defects than just your traditional punk rock fare.

Simply put, ‘Feed The Good Dog’ is a great album from a great band.

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Rik L Rik - The Lost Album (1991)

Rik L Rik's The Lost Album, originally released in 1991. The late great LA punk scene hero Rik L Rik's (F Word, Negative Trend) only solo album is a killer collection of singles, compilation tracks, live recordings, and unreleased tracks spanning punk, goth-rock, and new wave. Rik L Rik was a true original, parading around LA barefoot, living at his parents' house well into his 20s, and generally not giving a fuck in pure punk fashion. Essential for all fans of the '70s/'80s LA scene!

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The Child Molesters - The Legendary Brown Album (1994)

The Child Molesters are the epitome of avant-garde punk genius. If you don't own this album (which I'm sure you don't), you are a weakling. Snake-eyed Donkey, Fish-eyed Snake will change your life. There are freedoms in this life that only the Molesters have taken advantage of. This will inspire you, if you have any taste at all. (Jon Penoyar)

If you haven't yet heard The Child Molesters, the sound bridges genres. Most of the songs are garage pop, very catchy but with a substantial edge of rawness; a few others capture the sound of California surf accurately; others have an experimental energy - the band was a scion of the admired Los Angeles Free Music Society, and the band has not sacrificed an iota of their freshness or originality. "Pray for Surf" is easily the record's highlight - an instant classic that combines the band's unique and demented personalty. (Pseudonym)

The Child Molesters – Arguably the very worst band name? Initially formed in 1977, Los Angeles, United States and active up until 1982, during which time they released half a dozen singles and EP’s including ‘Surfing With The Child Molesters’ before in 1994 leaving us with ‘The Legendary Brown Album’ (Sympathy for the Record Industry) the cover of which is a parody of The Beatles ‘White Album’. (Phil Newall)

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The Reflections - Slugs And Toads (1981)

DIY super group. Dennis Burns and Mark Perry from ATV or The Good Missionaries, Karl Blake from The Lemon Kittens, and The legend that is Nag, from The Door and the Window. If that wasn't enough,the sleeve was designed by Danielle Dax!
The music, bizarrely enough sounds like that of all the aforementioned bands, but....erm ...different. There's a hint of the pop song about it, and in this case its a good thing, 'cus it works. A great album indeed, even the cover version of Rocky Erickson's "Interpreter" is great, aided greatly by the dulcet tones of Mark Perry. An overlooked classic of the genre methinks.

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Skids - Burning Cities (2018)

Burning Cities is the fifth studio album by Scottish punk rock and new wave band Skids,[6] due for release on 12 January 2018. Produced by Killing Joke bassist Youth, this is the band's first studio album in 36 years since their last one Joy came out in November 1981, and the first to feature Big Country father-and-son guitarists, Bruce and Jamie Watson. It is also their second with drummer Mike Baillie, and their third with founding bassist Wiliam Simpson.

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