Virgin Prunes "A New Form of Beauty 1-4" (Deluxe Edition) 2024-02-23 fractious feel of the times

fractious feel of the times

and a post-Napster music industry

Murder Of The Universe inhabits a sonic landscape of death

No Substance offers up tight and heady punk which touches on societal ills and world politics and still remains catchy as hell

Virgin Prunes "A New Form of Beauty 1-4" (Deluxe Edition) 2024-02-23 fractious feel of the timesThe Virgin Prunes were masters of the uncanny, juxtaposing nightmares with lullabies, beauty with cruelty, combining gentle vocals and the spoken word with anguished wailing from purgatory itself. This first album powerfully laid out this terrain. Its themes ranged from mournful tales of unrequited love, frustrated sexuality, morbid eroticism and wasted youth, to yearnings for distant dreamlands which were juxtaposed with macabre visions of dystopian