cavernous and propulsive, ultra-abstract yet driven by dance music’s physical imperatives." The group was inspired by diverse musical sources as diverse as Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, Captain Beefheart, King Tubby, Miles Davis, Pharoah Sanders, Sun Ra, John Cage, Debussy, Neu!, Funkadelic, Television, the New York Dolls, Jacques Brel, and Steve Reich in addition to non-musical sources such as French romanticism, Antonin Artaud, Beat poetry, Comte de Lautréamont, Jean Baudrillard, the Situationists, and existential philosophy. Addressing the group's shift toward an agitprop sensibility on their second album, released during the rise of Thatcherism, Mark Fisher wrote that the group's goal was "emotional engineering, a jolting out of the ideological trance that accepts injustice as inevitable." Influence and legacy Despite their lack of commercial success, their music inspired and influenced many bands and artists that followed them. They are cited as an influence by artists and bands like Minutemen, Primal Scream, Sonic Youth, Steve Albini of Big Black, Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails and Massive Attack. The Australian artist Nick Cave attended a gig of the Pop Group and was so inspired by their performance, he stated that: "...It was one of those moments we just feel the cogs of your mind shift and your life is going to be irreversibly change forever." David J of Bauhaus named the group as one of the "few bands on the [post-punk] scene at the time to whom we related". American artist St. Vincent performed a cover of "She Is Beyond Good And Evil" on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. The song also was a regular on her Strange Mercy Tour. Outside of music, The Simpsons creator Matt Groening, is a fan of the band and instigated their return when he invited them to reform for All Tomorrow’s Parties in 2010. Discography Studio albums Y (1979) For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder? (1980) Citizen Zombie (2015) Honeymoon on Mars (2016) Singles "She Is Beyond Good and Evil" (1979, Radar) "We Are All Prostitutes" (1979, Rough Trade) / (2016, Freaks R Us) "Where There's a Will There's a Way" (1980, Rough Trade/Y) "Citizen Zombie" (2015, Freaks R Us) "Mad Truth" (2015, Freaks R Us) "S.O.P.H.I.A." (2015, Freaks R Us) "Zipperface" (2016, Freaks R Us) References External links Trailer for the Pop Group/Mark Stewart documentary English experimental musical groups Musical groups from Bristol Musical groups established in 1977 Musical groups disestablished in 1981