Friday, September 15, 2017

#2621 Buzzcocks - Another Music in a Different Kitchen

Context: possibly the only band whose greatest hits is regarded by the snobs as their greatest output. Their first actual album contributes all of two songs to that parade of hooksome snotty masterworkery --- that ignored, you'd likely take this as an also-ran album of blunt, slashing nonsense: a solid but not quite noteworthy collection of itchy, frustrated rambling anthems, elevating itself to noteworthy only via the relentless mutant Bo Diddley pulse of Moving Away from Pulsebeat. A prescient hint at the brilliance to come, that 4/5

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