Redneck Leathernecks
Perennial Divide - Purge [LP+12"" SAX 016 UK 1986 24-Bit FLAC] Here is an old rip, re-worked and cleaned up from an old 2015 blog post. My copy is the limited edition pack comprising the Purge album and the Burn Down single shrink-wrapped in a revised sleeve. Of the second generation of industrial post-punk bands, Perennial Divide were the hardest sounding. Whilst their existence was relatively short before they metamorphosed into the brit-hop noise of Meat Beat Manifesto, this album is one of the finest examples of late era industrial post-punk committed to vinyl. In many ways, Purge sounds like the album Clock DVA never made - you can hear DVA influences throughout as it acquires influence heavily from both Thirst and Advantage . Following on from where Hula and Workforce left off, the Perennials kept it close to the bone, with only very brief meanders into funk. Many of their peers had moved on by the time Purge was released in 1986, but the excellent Sweatb...