• 1.1. empire
  • 1.2. hot seat
  • 1.3. electric guitar
  • 1.4. turn it round
  • 1.5. today
  • 1.6. expensive sound
  • 1.7. safety
  • 1.8. him or me
  • 1.9. all these things
  • 1.10. new emotion
  • 1.11. stand
02. September 2022
Label: MUNSTER
Genre: Punk

empire

expensive sound

EXPENSIVE SOUND

LP  €  12,99
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product info

Empire was an offshoot of Generation X, and their only LP "Expensive Sound" remains an obscure (yet highly rewarding) listen. Originally released in 1981, the same year Gary Numan and Soft Cell were raking in big bucks with their noir-flecked brand of retrofuturism, "Expensive Sound" was out-of-step with the climate of commercial music. Their music was raw, bare, warm - distinct from the glacial, antiseptic pop that would dominate the decade. The album was neither totally forward-looking nor nostalgia embracing. Instead, "Expensive Sound" does what great albums tend to: preserves a specific moment in time. There's an arid, unvarnished quality to the recordings - typified by frontman Derwood Andrews's voice and words. He sang with uncommon fragility ... read more

 
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