Annie Anxiety - Barbed Wire Halo
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12" reissue of anarcho-provocateur Annie Anxiety's debut 7" from 1981. This one still hits with the disorientating power four decades on, a cut-n-paste melange of manipulated electronics, cabaret sass and no-wave allure. Always interesting to listen to Annie in the context of the rest of the Crass Records output, her skewing of form and convention arguably a more appropriate reflection of their radical politics than the foot down and stomp punk aggression of the parent band (not that there isn't ample room for that, too). Barbed Wire Hello was exactly that, a hard-to-grip and sharpened re-direction of sound and form that continues to alienate and entice equally. A clarion call of a debut that aint aged a second.
