V-Effect – Stop Those Songs [LP] (1983, Rift)

 

This forgotten album from 1983 started with "Master/Slave", a vibrant and delightful art-punk-funk-jazz exercise that had one foot in the work of the Art Bears, and the other in the work of Captain Beefheart, and without forgetting no-wavers such as Blurt. Ditto for the minimal spastic discordance of "Feet First", which also maintained a degree of elegance. Then, the rhythmic chaos of "New Condition" veered even more into no-wave, into the kind of perverse groove that Teenage Jesus & The Jerks or DNA manage to get across. In the meantime, tracks such as "Pollyanna" and "Mysteries Of The Organism" returned to a kind of disjointed but measured elegance, whereas the amateurish sabotage of "Placebo #1" and "Fast-Acting Placebo" revisited the spirit of early Half Japanese. Side two followed along these lines, with highlights such as "Boyce Life" and "They Can't Get It" approaching an ever more severe sound. [SOURCE: RATE YOUR MUSIC] 

 

Label: Rift – RIFT 6 

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album 

Country: US 

Released: 1983 

Style: Free Jazz, No Wave, Avantgarde, Avant-Prog, Zolo

 

Tracklist:

A1 Master / Slave 

A2 Battle Of Algiers 

A3 Feet First 

A4 New Condition 

A5 Placebo #1 

A6 Alley Oops 

A7 Pollyanna 

A8 Mysteries Of The Organism 

A9 Fast-Acting Placebo 

B1 Lavaplatos 

B2 A Tree Grows In Managua 

B3 Boyce Life 

B4 Wheat 

B5 New Song (Old Story) 

B6 Must Go 

B7 They Can't Get It 

B8 Placebo #3 

 

Notes:

Tracks A1, A2, A6, A7, B3 & B4 recorded at OAO Studio, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Tracks A3, A8, B1, B2, B5 & B7 recorded at Sunrise Studio, Kirchberg, Switzerland. 

Tracks A4, A5, A8, B6 & B8 recorded live in New York, West Germany, Switzerland and Czechoslovakia. 

 

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