EAR INFLUXION

Words about electronic & experimental music

SINCE 2010

Roe Enney: Glare (Root Strata)If you happen to be a former goth/industrial kid or have a reverence for early 80s post-punk gloom, Roe Enney is going to hit all the right, sparse notes for...

New Order: “Elegia” (1985)The full, 17+ minute version of “Elegia,” which appeared on New Order’s 1985 Low-Life album in a much edited form, is New Order’s instrumental tribute to their belated...

B.C. Gilbert & G. Lewis: “3:4” (3R4, 4AD 1980)Wire’s influence on music is undeniable, being one of the highest profile post-punk acts to surface in the late 70s and early 80s, and persevering...

Crash Course In Science: “Cardboard Lamb” (Signals from Pier Thirteen, 1981) Weird vintage post-punk from 1981 from this odd Philly trio. Schematic Records reissued this in 2011,...

The Cure: “Pornography” (Pornography, Elektra/Fiction 1982) The closing title track on The Cure’s 1982 blacker-than-black masterpiece remains one of their darkest moments....

The Cure: “Pornography” (Pornography, Elektra/Fiction 1982) The closing title track on The Cure’s 1982 blacker-than-black masterpiece remains one of their darkest moments....

Crispy Ambulance: “Concorde Square” (Live on a Hot August Night, Factory Benelux 1981) From one of Crispy Ambulance’s early releases, this track begins in typical Factory post-Joy...

Crispy Ambulance: “Concorde Square” (Live on a Hot August Night, Factory Benelux 1981) From one of Crispy Ambulance’s early releases, this track begins in typical Factory post-Joy...

Tropic of Cancer: Permissions of Love (Mannequin) Camella Lobo is the woman behind the gloomy sounds of Tropic of Cancer, no longer aided by Juan Mendez (a.k.a. Silent Servant) who left...

Jah Wobble, Jaki Liebezeit, & Holger Czukay: “Trench Warfare” (How Much Are They?, 1981) I’d never heard this collaboration until recently when searching for another Czukay /...

Raime: Quarter Turns Over A Living Line (Blackest Ever Black) Raime’s debut full-length is even darker and more brooding than I’d anticipated. Somehow feeling aligned with...

DAF: “Co Co Pino” (Die Kleinen und Die Bösen, Mute 1981) Back when DAF was still a weirdo post-punk band and before they stripped down to the duo that made their epic trilogy of albums...

Martin Hannett: “Second Aspect of the Same Thing” (Factory Records, 1979) Test CardA Factory Records Product ℗©1979 Originally released as a bonus to the initial sandpaper sleeve issues of The...

Martin Hannett: “First Aspect of the Same Thing” (Factory Records, 1979) Test CardA Factory Records Product ℗©1979 Originally released as a bonus to the initial sandpaper sleeve issues...

Raime: Hennail (Blackest Ever Black) Two tracks from the ghostly duo known as Raime, who I assume are the same people behind the Blackest Ever Black label (most of the releases are from...

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