riogasra.blogg.se - Second layer world of rubber rar

“Black Flowers” is one of the most funereal closing tracks I’ve ever heard, with a simplistic drum pattern, detuned bass and dissonant washes of either synth or organĪs Second Layer were even more obscure than the Sound, gripping their shit has long been kind of a pain in the ass. What opens side two is a dubbish track ominously titled “Underneath The Gloss”, which is enough to make your spine squirm and wonder if you’re as sane as you think you are! “Zero” has a monolithic doomsday riff but then the whole track abruptly slows to a frightening crawl… “Japanese Headset” might be about brainwashing or torture-Borland torments like a Spanish Inquisitor while another voice screams in a background of a cheap electronic rhythm. “Save Our Souls” is the most melodic but still pretty grim even by Borland’s usual standards… Y’know it’s funny that his lyrics in the Sound did have a great sense of hope to them, which isn’t evident here. “The definition of honor is that hole in the side of your head…” “In Bits” just makes me think that’s what the vast emptyness of extreme alienation must be like, with that devastating attack of feedback concluding it. The opener “Definition Of Honor” is an incendiary anti-war song that gives you images of Goya or Hieronymus Bosch.

Heavy-metallish guitars, Suicide-style machine rhythm and ugly, grayish tones from an ARP synth sums up what you get here. World Of Rubber has to be the grimmest album Borland ever involved himself in. The debut ep “Courts Or Wars” was minimalist punk with a drum machine whereas the later “State Of Emergency” ep was pure discordant noise. Second Layer was an experimental project inbetween Borland’s previous punk band the Outsiders and the formation of the Sound later. All of them are quite good, but if you’re unwilling to take my word for it, that great resource for all lovers of obscure-but-awesome sounds Julian Cope’s Head Heritage has opined on the matter: (Also, a posthumous 1987 comp collected the two EPs into a 6-song mini album). In their brief existence they released the EPs “Flesh as Property” and “State of Emergency,” and the album World of Rubber. Using homemade drum machines and grimly minimal electronics goosed with some guitars, Second Layer were darker and creepier than the bands that spawned them, and they lurked in the crossings of the trails blazed by Suicide, Fad Gadget, and Joy Division. It’s extraordinarily baffling and regrettable that popularity eluded them.īut concurrent with the Sound’s earliest years, Bailey and Borland had an even lesser-known project, Second Layer. Though the band suffered a mid-decade decline due to the onset of mental illness in Borland (he’d succumb to depression and take his own life in 1999), but they were and remain a favorite of the critics and the cognoscenti, easily comparable in sound and in top-notch quality to the Bunnymen, Furs, Chameleons-hell, name one of that era’s greats, and seriously, the Sound were every bit as good.

State of Emergency E.P.I don’t need to tell TOO many Dangerous Minds readers about the Sound, do I? That exquisite London post-punk band was founded in 1978 by singer/guitarist Adrian Borland and bassist Graham Bailey-both refugees from one of the many, many bands to hit upon the idea of naming themselves the Outsiders-and they released a run of excellent albums between 1980-‘87.

World of Rubber (1981, Cherry Red Records).

While the Sound had songs of gloomy introspection and a sweeping romanticism, Second Layer strips all of that away, leaving in its place a monochrome worldview morbidly obsessed with the dehumanising effect of war, nuclear weapon annihilation, and the fracturing and negation of the self within an increasingly distorted and technologically mediated society." Discography Studio albums In a 2015 retrospective review, The Quietus said, "The first thing that's noticeable on listening to World Of Rubber is how utterly different the sound and aesthetic of Second Layer is compared to that of the Sound. Musical style Īndy Kellman of AllMusic wrote that the band "retained some of feel" of the Sound, "albeit in a slightly detached fashion that's to be expected when synths and drum machines replace more human elements". In 2015, Dark Entries Records reissued the band's entire discography, augmented by five unreleased demo tracks, as the World of Rubber collection.

The band's only studio album, World of Rubber, was recorded in France and released in 1981 by Cherry Red Records. This was followed by another EP the following year, State of Emergency. The duo's first release was the Flesh as Property EP, released in 1979 by Tortch Records.