I found this CD while browsing the discount bin at a local record shop. Fifty cents. I'm not really sure why it ended up there, save for being rather obscure. Put out on Southern Records, it combines two albums. The Grey EP, released in 1983 on CRASS records and produced by CRASS's Penny Rimbaud, and The Sirens Are Back LP, released in 1984 on the CRASS records imprint Corpus Christi. I didn't recognize the name when I found this but the cover art caught my eye. Clearly stylized after CRASS, I figured fifty cents wasn't too much to risk. What I got was some great UK post-punk. They actually remind me a lot of later Blitz. Definitely punk, but slower, and a little Joy Divisiony.
The Grey EP has four tracks, We're Looking For People, Another Sunset, Girl in a Mask, and Radioactive Man. The songs are bleak, well written, and thought provoking. They really paint a picture of a dystopian modern world. Bombings, war, death. The Sirens Are Back continues in the same vein with ten more tracks. The songs tend to stick to around the four minute mark, give or take, and the album has a really good flow.
We're Looking For People
Disaster Level
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