Visitors - Poet's End

If you have been chasing one of the 1000 copies of this down for years and thought it was no longer available, read on. One of the more interesting post punk bands, even though they were fairly short lived. Visitors are a fabulously forgotten Edinburgh post punk crew who probably had everything in place to be massive. A snarling vicious sound, nasty guitars twirling everywhere, scary dystopian lyrics and the backing of John Peel. The materials gathered on Poets End were all originally recorded thanks to the benevolence of Peel between 1979 and 1981, Peel doing his usual excellent job of documenting crucial slices of the underground. They have a guitar sound that would give Gang of Four a run for its money, tangled, twanging and twitching over melodic, almost funky basslines and a singer who is very, very angry indeed. I'm also reminded of the hazardous scratch of Josef K and the early pummelling dark rock of Joy Division. This compilation brings together all three of the Edinburgh post-punks' highly collectable 7" singles plus 4 additional unreleased songs from the same recording sessions.