Electrical Language: Independent British Synth Pop 78-84, Various Artists, 4CD/48pp Bookpack on Cherry Red Records
This comes out on the 31st of May and can be pre-ordered from the Cherry Red website.
Laugh Clown Laugh feature at track five on the second disk.
‘Electrical Language’ captures this time and place in microscopic detail. The uptempo would-be hits with suburban nightclub aspirations, the science and technology enthralled proto-techno workouts and the otherworldy experiments are all here, sitting comfortably amongst each other in some cases, jostling for position in others. This was a post-punk revolution of another kind, played out on a stage free of the traditional boundaries and limitations, entirely alien to anybody over twenty-five and enthralled by the new and the exotic. For the first time in a while, the future looked bright, albeit illuminated with electric light.
- Cherry Red.
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