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    THOMAS LEER & ROBERT RENTAL

    Jan 13, 2022 2 minutes
    LOUIS PATTISON

    The Bridge (reissue, 1979)

    THE GREY AREA OF MUTE

    8/10

    THE year 1979 was when synth-pop went overground. In May, Tubeway Army released their final single “Are ‘Friends’ Electric”, a Moog-powered track that propelled the band – and their pale cyborg of a lead singer Gary Numan – to. That same month, another seminal synth-powered record hit shelves. That is seeing its first vinyl reissue since 1979 would seem to indicate it’s more of a footnote in the history of electronic music than a foundation stone. But a listen from the vantage point of 2022 reveals it to be as striking as Numan’s music of the era. Eerie and unsettling, rough in a DIY way but buzzing with ambition, it’s imbued with the spirit of punk but pointing somewhere new.

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