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  The Mothmen - One Black Dot [RIDE 9 UK 1982 24-Bit FLAC] I've reworked, cleaned and rebalanced the original files from my February 2015 rip of One Black Dot for this post. I think it is a good improvement on my original work. Don't expect the same dubby experimentation as the first album, One Black Dot is much tidier and more organised, if anything dangerously close to commercial. One Black Dot is a an art-pop/rock album very much aimed at a bigger market than their first - I can draw comparisons to Talking Heads and bits of Wire. The cracking single Temptation is pure pop-synthdisco (and it works), Wadada was also a single but much too clever for the mainstream. I quite like the last track, Thank You I Like It , which begins in a bluesy groove but finishes up with some nice wavey synth and loads of effects.  A1 Wadada A2 Temptation A3 One More Weapon A4 Lets Talk About It A5 No Rest B1 One Black Dot B2 Weekend B3 House And Car B4 Home Sweet Home B5 ...

  The Mothmen - Pay Attention! [ON-U LP 2 UK 1981 24-Bit FLAC] A new rip from one of my favourite, and most obscure album on Adrian Sherwood's On-U Sound label. I am sure, but open to be corrected, that this was the only On-U Sound release not to feature Adrian Sherwood in any shape or form. The original four piece Mothmen formed from the ashes of the original Durutti Column, who contributed two dub-punk tracks to the A Factory Sample double 7" single pack. The delicate Vini Reilly struggled by on his own (with a little help from Martin Hannett) whereas the remainder became Mothmen. The line-up comprised Tony Bowers, Dave Rowbotham, Chris Joyce and Bob Harding - most of whom were were also involved in C.P. Lee's infamous manc-pub-rocksters Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias. This record defies classification or comparison, and most certainly is unlike anything else on On-U Sound. History isn't clear on how The Mothmen ended up as one of the first releases on Sherwood...