Remarkable LPs from the past

2 September 1982

(Photo: Mute Records)

Band: A CERTAIN RATIO
Who: Manchester’s post-punk pioneers who took the world
by surprise in 1977 and are still alive and kicking. So far they
fabricated 12 LPs.

Album: SEXTET
Their 3rd released in 1982.

Pitchfork said: “‘Sextet’ is either that era’s creepiest, boggiest dance album or its funkiest smear of brittle art-noise… One axis of the Sextet-era band is Tilson, who’s as odd a vocalist as they could have picked. She’s perpetually lagging behind the beat and beneath the pitches for which she’s reaching, and she swallows her words, as if she’s struggling to repeat them to hersel, meanwhile Kerr and Johnson are doing their damnedest to play funk as hard as the Sugar Hill Records house band–hitting precise, clipped grooves while their band mates run interference with haphazardly flung splashes of atonal piano and dissonant horn bleats.
‘Sextet’ is a gorgeous mess, slumped against the back wall of the best dance club in town.” – Score: 8/10 – Full review here

TUTV: Highly infectious funk eccentricity standing the test of time brilliantly!
Blow the horns, hit the bass, and shake your booty, folks!

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