Pink Industry – New Beginnings [LP] (1985, Zulu Records)

 

When Pink Military split up in 1981, singer Jayne Casey formed the more electronically oriented band Pink Industry along with Ambrose Reynolds (who had played with Casey in Big In Japan in the 1970s, and was an early member of Frankie Goes to Hollywood), the duo initially using several other musicians, later becoming a trio with the addition of Tadzio Jodlowski. The band's first release was the 'Forty-Five' EP featuring lead track "Is This The End?", released in February 1982. The band's debut album, 'Low Technology', was released the following year, reaching number 12 on the UK Independent Chart. A second album, 'Who Told You You Were Naked', followed later the same year, and peaked at number nine on the Indie chart. Between 1982 and 1984, the band recorded four sessions for John Peel's BBC Radio 1 show. After a two-year gap since their previous release, the band returned in 1985 with the 'New Beginnings' album. 

 
'New Beginnings' is haunted. Not haunting, it's far too unassuming and slight for that, but haunted. Everything about it sounds like a recorded echo, making the album feel like its own ghost striving to make itself known but only succeeding at being felt. Pulling that off in short bursts is hard, but sustaining the same overall feeling for a full album would seem almost impossible. At its best it's also incredibly beautiful and surprising on top of all those things -the mournful sax on "What I Wouldn't Give" and the skeletal desolation of "The Beech" stand out immediately, as does the proto-Autechere (of all things) feel of the title track -but for the most part it's merely trance-inducingly listenable. Not quite a lost classic but certainly worth keeping around. [SOURCE: RATE YOUR MUSIC]

 

 

Label: Zulu Records – Zulu 7 

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album 

Country: UK 

Released: Jul 1985 

Style: Leftfield, New Wave, Synth-pop, Minimal Wave, Post-Punk, Ambient Pop, Downtempo

 

Tracklist:

A1 New Beginnings 

A2 Pain Of Pride 

A3 Bound By Silence 

A4 State Of Grace 

A5 Piano Ping 

B1 Empty Beech 

B2 The Corpse 

B3 Fifty Five 

B4 What I Wouldn't Give 

B5 No Defence 

B6 Stand Alone 

 

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