What Are You Listening To?

[Tiggi]

Two discer featuring Suicide's second studio album from 1980, plus a disc of pre-demo material from 1975.

The music is a fusion of Electro-Pop and Punk attitude (if not sound), and synths throb, whilst drum machines clatter, and Alan Vega moans. The pervasive mood is one of faint menace, but there are some lovely melodic songs which act as a counterpoint. Surprised to find that Ric Ocasek of The Cars was in the producer's chair...

The second disc is altogether more unhinged, spacey, and downright strange, and makes for some unsettling listening.

Good album...