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Title: the perfect opening act
Review: ladies and gentlemen:imagine you are in the audience at the joy division concert(late 1978,manchester or thereabouts).the bitter end of "sunny jim's" labour government.in america,the "aberration" of carterism will ignominiously implode in a year or two.but first consider the band that precedes the spectral mister curtis-section 25.only the "clever bastards from blackpool" could open the show!the music the cassidy brothers offered the jd fans is reduced here(on this cd,always now)in a minimalist,trippy format that gave philip glass pause,i'm sure.their weltanschauung is somber,surely,but for all that a classic example of late seventies less-is-more dance music 98% of the world missed at the time.this is music that sounds like a long lost gospel reads-lithe,vibrant,luminous,and elegant.defy everything-and by all means check out this disc.
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