06/02/2011 12:37:29
Artist:
pragVEC
Title: pragVEC
Year: 1979
Label: Celluloid Records
Personnel: Nicholas Cash (drums), John Studholme (guitar, backing vocals), David Boyd (bass, backing vocals), Susan Gogan (vocals, synthesizer)
Tracklisting: expert, wolf, cigarettes, existential, bits, the follower
Glass say...
A perfect
realisation of the post-punk aesthetic, pragVEC have deservedly acquired cult
status, even though this sole mini-album gathers together virtually everything
they ever recorded.
Susan Gogan delivers deadpan-cum-neurotic vocals over angular guitars and an urgent-sounding rhythm section that leave you breathless. A strong Beefheart influence is evident on tracks like ‘Existential’, possibly marking pragVEC out as the UK’s answer to Pere Ubu. Indeed, the most striking track – closer, ‘The Follower’ - employs wasp synth to quite remarkable effect with a lead line that Allen Ravestine would be proud of.
Whilst fans of ‘colder’ synth music may find the album hard to digest, pragVEC’s position in the development of eighties music should not be overlooked.
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