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The Lines - Cool Snap! [RL 12.005 UK 1980 24-Bit FLAC] A new 2019 rip of  this long lost classic post-punk mini album. Superb guitar pop from London's new wave post-punksters The Lines. Very much a blink and you'll miss them act, The Lines hung around for a few years, managing a couple of albums and tours with The Cure and Alternative TV. Thanks to a friend in Scotland and his box of magical delights. A1 Don't Need Surgery A2 Two Split Seconds A3 False Alarm B1 Back Ground B2 Cool Snap

The Lines - Hull Down [ACU 016 2016 24-Bit FLAC] The Lines were a British post-punk band active between about 1978 and 1982. Always seemingly the support and never the main act, The Lines career spawned five singles and three albums promoting a series of live supports to Bauhaus, The Birthday Party and The Cure. Hull Down was compiled from studio sessions recorded before the bands break-up and marked a shift from the standard guitar/bass/drums/voice formula into a more synth-based sound. Never released at the time, it took 30+ years for front man Rico Coning to rework all the sessions into an album proper. Marketed as the lost third album, Hull Down should be revered for its importance as historical bookmark from the era where bands put down their guitars and discovered synthesizers and drum machines. Just listen to Single Engine Duster and compare it to where New Order were at about the same time, Coning went on to become a skilled studio engineer, working at first ...