Various - Scaling Triangles
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More scratching around in the forgotten past from Zaius Tapes with this unlikely reissue of an all-female, three-band post-punk compilation originally released on the one-and-done Treble Chants label in 1981. This is the beating heart of DIY pneuma right here, Petticoats, Sole Sister and Sub Verse issuing three offerings each of raw but spirited primitive guitar and/or synth expressions that will kindle a few fires for those with an interest in Young Marble Giants, Kleenex, Delta 5 et al. Very much in that early Rough Trade hotspot, then, and there's few better places to be of course. The post-punk 'revival' has been trucking along longer than most people driving it have been alive, which has run the well dry somewhat in terms of surprises, but Petticoats aside (who you may have encountered via that split 12"on Zickzack and an equally rough-sounding 7"), these are entirely new discoveries for me, and even the Petticoats sound evolved enough here to feel like a fresh undertaking. Regardless, there's plenty of the right boxes being ticked - independently-focused, female-led, whipsmart and playful, intuitively-guided amateurism: stop me as soon as you hear something you don't like... The 80s really is a TARDIS: dimensionally transcendental, bigger on the inside than the outside...
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