'This one's for you Rough Trade!'. So goes the opening line of 'Reagan for Shah', the Slits meets Pop Group styled third track on this nine track compilation of 80s Cali duo, Psyclones. And the RT aesthetic is just one they manage to nail down here, the four years from which these songs are culled see the band move freely and easily around a whole host of sounds, also taking in proto-industrial ala TG and Severed Heads, Residents-y tape experimentations, no-wave and Pere Ubu Year Zero dystopian post-punk. An archetypal (ideal?) post-punk act in a lot of ways, the pair rarely standing still, reacting to what's going on around them. They're name-dropping Rough Trade because they're children of the culture, consuming it, spitting it back out in their own unique shape. Seems like they were still active until fairly recently, which shows their kind of creative enquiry necessitates a lifetime. Amen! Credit to the label for trawling the deep archives and getting this together. A welcome addition to the ever-deepening post-punk reissue canon.
Edition of 300 copies.
Psyclones – Tape Music 1980-1984
£19.00
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