Via the medium of my original LP purchased in the week it was released in 1978. After the gradual building of atmospherics on the opener Pure, the 2nd song Jigsaw Feeling is jaw-droppingly brilliant. All that bottled up aggression of being the last of the “punk” bands to get signed, finally let loose in the studio. What follows is just as wonderful. And I can’t think of any precedents to the sound they created; John McKay’s guitar playing in particular, is totally original. Just listen to those creeping guitar chords on Overground or the sheer sonic violence of Suburban Relapse.
A band at their absolute peak, they would never sound as vital and essential as this again. “Be limblessly in love”.
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