Eyeless in Gaza - Caught in the Flux
#1
January 1 1981
Eyeless in Gaza
Caught in the Flux
Genre: What a terrible way to start off the year
1.25 out of 5
If 1980 was the year of power pop and New Wave and the harbinger of that was Pam Windo, I am terrified for what is in store for 1981.
Whatever Eyeless in Gaza will become is not evidenced here where it seems that Martyn Bates and Peter Webber got their hands on a high end 4-track and were left alone in the basement of their dorm rooms to do whatever they wanted. That’s fine. I did that. We wrote some weird shit. But! We didn’t put it out into the world, accompanied by a 5 song EP.
This is hubris. Made terrible by how ugly it is.
Every bad instinct of all the New Wave bands + obnoxious and horrible vocals are here in this hourlong epic of terrible.
The album proper is garbage.
The EP is a lot more moody and ambient and I can see where they might be headed but, ugh, it’s not worth it.
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