DoyGlo Revisited
The months move by and the next generation of British rock emerges with a sound and mood of its own. Many groups use the simplicity and musical directness of their punk predecessors as a starting point, but restraint and subtlety have replaced all-out assault, and the anger is muted or has mutated into unease.
DoyGlo Revisited
RECORDS
ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN Crocodiles (Korova/Sire)
THE TEARDROP EXPLODES Kilimanjaro (Mercury)
U2
Boy
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By
Michael Davis
The months move by and the next generation of British rock emerges with a sound and mood of its own. Many groups use the simplicity and musical directness of their punk predecessors as a starting point, but restraint and subtlety have replaced all-out assault, and the anger is muted or has mutated into unease. Since a lot of this music is quite tasteful on the surface, it’s surprising that the major U.S. companies have been kinda slow to pick up on it but they have, allowing albums like Young Marble Giants’ Colossal Youth and the Cure’s 17 Seconds to languish in the import bins. And I’ve gotta mention Joy Division, who took the musical fcontrol/emotional anguish dichotomy as far as possible before self-destructing just days before their first American gigs.