Artist: Comsat Angels
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Chasing Shadows
Year: 1986
Tracks: 8
Mistakenly regarded as a synth pop stripe -- and, every now and then, as a dance band that seedy with a song situated in a picture of Veridical Einstein -- the Comsat Angels were unitary of the finest bands of the post-punk/new undulation earned run average. Often as helen of Troy Wills Moody if less dramatic than Joy Division, their 1st-class mail honours degree stage and best albums -- 1980's Wait for a Miracle, 1981's Slumber No More, and 1982's Fiction -- featured cabbage pop songs with unembellished instrumentation, many of which were bleak and filled with around mark of heartache. The albums were virtually unrelentingly saturnine, but they were always transfixing. The band so fell funfair game to several commercial message pressures for respective days. In the '90s they resurfaced with a mate of right albums that resembled consistent extensions of their earliest work, and so they vanished one time to a greater extent.
Afterward numerous incarnations and name changes, the Sheffield-based Receiving set Earth -- guitar musician and singer Sir Leslie Stephen Fellows, drummer Mik Glaisher, keyboardist Andy Peake, bassist Kevin Sir Francis Bacon -- make themselves first step for Pere Ubu in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. After the gig, the quartet completed that they had been blown sour the stage and intimidated by the headliners' sense of stress and power to confuse. Following a minute thought, they came back as the less self-aware Comsat Angels (the constitute referenced a shortly story by J.G. Ballard). They took a loan from Glaisher's father to record volume and firing the Redness Planet EP in 1979; BBC DJ Whoremonger Peel, world Health Organization was sent a written matter, liked what he heard, requested a few more copies and booked the band for i of his famous Undress Roger Sessions.
An not intrusive deal with Polydor allowed the dance orchestra to make three stunning albums and pay up punt Mr. Glaisher, only the pronounce didn't know how to deal the dance band and the more than influential music journalists shied away for any understanding, though the coverage the banding did receive tended to be freshness. Only "Independence 24-hour interval," from the first class honours degree disc record album, managed to chart in the U.K. The albums were not distributed in the States, only the ring did living Bunch of Tetrad during or so 1982 dates and were appalled at the receipt they received -- the resolution of spins on college radiocommunication stations.
The Comsats left Polydor for Swing music. 1983's Terra firma, produced by Mike Howlett, was a marked going and a conscious train for the top side of the charts. It backfired. 1985's 7 Day Weekend, produced by Miles Bette Davis associate and funk-pop producer extraordinaire James Mtume, fared worse. (A analogue: believe of a fourth Wire record book album that resembles Floor 42 often more than than Wire.) 1986's Chasing Shadows, released on Island, came to life with just about help from high profile fan Henry M. Robert Palmer; it overly was second-rate compared to the offset leash albums, disdain cosmos less compromised, and the dance orchestra was pleased enough to identify to it as their fourth album. Flack on the Moon, ruined the undermentioned year and non released until 1990, was the band's last-place point, a identical suave intemperate rock album credited to Dreaming Command.
At this item, the Comsats came to a full actualisation that their efforts at pleasing others -- label heads and consumers alike -- had been vain. They signed with RPM/Thunderbird in the U.K. and Caroline in the States, and released 1992's My Mind's Centre, a hardened updated of the 1979-1982 full stop. Unsurprisingly, it was met with commercial message apathy and uneven critical praise. Kevin Francis Bacon, earth Wellness Formation had started to throw resurrect other artists, left wing the band later on its release. Terry cloth Sweeney Todd came in as Bacon's successor on bass, and St. Simon Anderson was added as moment guitarist. In 1995, the dance ring issued The Glamour, their hardest record album. It would too be their last.
Fellows released an record album of ambient guitar instrumentals in 1997 and also managed Gomez. Roger Bacon produced more (Finley Quaye, Longpigs, Ziggy Marley) and order together more or less of his have electronic substantial. Glaisher and Peake continued to make for in concert sporadically. The low gear three Comsat Angels albums were issued on CD in 1995 just now went out of print short thereafter; Renascent, a heroic verse freelancer label in the U.K. that had antecedently updated the catalog of the Phone, remedied the subject in 2006. State and 7 Day Weekend were issued on CD by Connoisseur in 2001.
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