Pauline Murray and the Invisible Girls - Pauline Murray and the Invisible Girls
#377
October 3 1980
Pauline Murray and the Invisible Girls
Pauline Murray and the Invisible Girls
4.25 out of 5
Highlights:
Dream Sequence 1
Shoot You Down
Thundertunes
“This is Nazi Punks Fuck Off over produced by Martin Hannett….” is how I was first introduced to that producer. Of course, that’s from the In God We Trust, Inc Ep by Dead Kennedys and it was Jello Biafra’s warble that yelled that out. And forever I would think less of Mr. Hannett because Jello told me to.
And then this project came about and, well, I’m much more of a fan of his than that stupid 15 year old would have allowed.
Invisible Girls predates this project so I don’t have the context, but, boy, based on this I might have to go back into their catalog. Listening to “Dream Sequence 1” updates Ronnie Spector’s sound and becomes one of the architects of the modern Goth Sound.
But that’s not what this record is about. It’s about pushing envelopes and playing with tropes.
And it succeeds on that in almost every way.
The scraping edge of “European Eyes” gives way immediately and almost discordantly, to the Dream Pop of “Shoot You Down” which slams into the neo-disco of “Sympathy” and then the wanna-be pop of the weakest track on Side One, “Time Slipping” and that’s when it hits me:
This is Garbage.
Not trash.
Garbage. A producer fueled band fronted by a strong female voice that throws everything into the bin and mixes it up to come up with something truly terrific
There is girl group meets dream pop on Side Two in “Thundertunes” and I’m here for it.
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