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Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of the British Punk band's 1980 sophomore album including bonus tracks. Famously recorded with Mike Oldfield associate Tom Newman at the controls, the second Adverts album was never going to be just another Punk album. Although the group's live performance remained as fiery as ever, T.V. Smith was opening their sound to all manner of influences, including augmenting the lineup with keyboards -- Richard Strange handled synth on what would become the new album's title track, before Newman introduced another Oldfield sideman, Tim Cross. It was not an album that was to win the Adverts
Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of the British Punk band's 1980 sophomore album including bonus tracks. Famously recorded with Mike Oldfield associate Tom Newman at the controls, the second Adverts album was never going to be just another Punk album. Although the group's live performance remained as fiery as ever, T.V. Smith was opening their sound to all manner of influences, including augmenting the lineup with keyboards -- Richard Strange handled synth on what would become the new album's title track, before Newman introduced another Oldfield sideman, Tim Cross. It was not an album that was to win the Adverts many friends, but it probably wasn't meant to. Not until its first CD reissue, a full 19 years later, was the album perceived as the heroic and, in places, precognitive effort that it was, a window opening into the extremes (and, occasionally, excesses) of the 1980s new wave, and doing so with such effectiveness that the bonus tracks, drawn from the band's period singles, sound absolutely old-fashioned by comparison. Fire Records. 2009.
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Manufacturer: Fire UK
Release date: 31 January 2005
Number of discs: 2
EAN: 0802644490526 UPC: 802644490526
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