(2023) Essential Logic - Beat Rhythm News (Waddle Ya Play?) (1979 Remaster)    


Review:
After a brief stint as a founding member and saxophonist for English punks X-Ray Spex, Lora Logic split off and founded a group of her own in 1978 with Essential Logic. During their initial run, Essential Logic were influential in creating the sound of post-punk, with eccentric song structures, crude but fun sax playing, and melodies that swung quickly between whimsical and anxious. Essential Logic released just one album, 1979’s Beat Rhythm News, before splitting in 1981, but Logic continued working on music sporadically as the band’s legacy and influence grew. Never released in America, this is a stunning record that remains a benchmark of the punk era. From the bubbling, herky-jerky rhythms of “Quality Crayon Wax OK” to the gleeful honking of “Wake Up,” this is the sound of five young English musicians disassembling rock & roll and remaking it in an entirely new way. It’s more than just a different way of playing music; it, like the best punk rock, fills you with the feeling of being able to change the world. An underrated record of its time, it remains criminally overlooked by critics even today (with such notable exceptions as Greil Marcus and Jon Savage), as the history of punk is finally being written. — bandcamp


   


Track List:
01. Quality Crayon Wax O.K
02. The Order Form
03. Shabby Abbott
04. World Friction
05. Wake Up
06. Albert
07. Alkaline Loaf In The Area
08. Collecting Dust
09. Popcorn Boy (Waddle Ya Do)


Media Report:
Genre: new wave, post-punk
Country: UK
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits
Compression mode: Lossless
Writing library: libFLAC 1.2.1 (UTC 2007-09-17)


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