Embrace s/t LPEmbrace s t LP "Embrace was made up of Ian MacKaye (who was previously the bassist of the Teen Idles, the singer of Minor Threat and Skewbald Grand Union, did side projects in Egg Hunt and Pailhead and now plays guitar and sings half the songs in Fugazi and also co owns Dischord Records) and three of the five members of Faith: Michael Hampton (previously of SOA, Faith and Skewbald Grand Union and later of One Last Wish) on guitar, Ivor Hanson

Absent are the menacing

New Romance meets clarinets on a nicely decorated dissecting table with some flowers in the pot

SPIRIT ELECTRICITY was recorded on the same tour (summer of '87)

the animal screams

atmospheric piano and synths building emotional high and downs

that made me think of Belgian KIDS or very early the DAMNED (New Rose

frontwoman Louisa Solomon said it was an album about growing up

creating an added level of heavy rhythmic noise that not only contributes an exciting dynamic layer to the album sonically

Check out the scary

Brighton 64 – Modernista LP

The piece is based on a system that exploits the malfunction of the CD player

that letting go of ballast that makes life worth living