What's uncanny is the way that this collection of 11 songs by 11 bands sound like the work of one, despite the fact they came from all around the world in the pre-internet 80's. The sound is post-punk with a tinny, cavernous atmosphere, encompassing desperate, shouty vocals, big bouncy bass, and clipped little beats, all clopping around a little overfast, a little overthin, all a little bent and twisted by time, an ex-addict's skeleton still reaching.
Today it doesn't really come across as all that scary or all that groundbreaking or all that interesting, but there's a thrill of history here. To make something this noisy, this industrial, this seething and slinking and seductive was a bold stroke, and it's worth a listen if you want a primer on music that surely influenced much of the gothy rock that came after 3/5
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