Description
DESCRIPTION
Four CD set. Originally signed to Cherry Red in 1981, Eyeless in Gaza moved very quickly through four albums of skewed free-pop explorations to become the intriguing, uncomfortable cousin of the brash new wave sound finding it's way into the mainstream at the time. Picture a place where scratchy guitars, synthesizers, primitive rhythms, found sounds, technical experimentation and neo-noise come together to provide a bed for the poetic, exploratory lyrics of Martyn Bates. Oblique, anxious, difficult in places and beautifully detached, their sound captured perfectly the beauty to be found if one cared to rummage through the rubble of a Britain in the midst of industrial collapse. Produced with the approval and involvement of the band, and spread across four CDs presented in a hard clamshell case, this set captures Eyeless In Gaza's first four albums, along with a band compiled set of non-album essentials and oddities and a sleeve note by Martyn Bates.
Seven Years
Fixation
Looking Daggers
From a to B
Clear Cut Apparently
Speech Rapid Fire
John of Patmos
Knives Replace Air
Faceless
In Your Painting
A Keepsake
Whitewash
No Noise
Sixth Sense
Point You
Voice from the Tracks
Scale Amiss
The Decoration
Continual
Soul on Thin Ice
Rose Petal Knot
Skeletal Framework
See Red
Half-Light
Every Which Way
The Eyes of Beautiful Losers
Still Air
Out from the Day-To-Day
True Colour
Keynote Inertia
Transience Blues
Ill Wind Blows
One By One
Picture the Day
Dreaming at Rain
Two
Veil Like Calm
Throw a Shadow
Pencil Sketch
At Arms Length
Lights of April
Before You Go
Tall and White Nettles
Warm Breath, Soft and Slow
Blue Distance
Sheer Cliffs
Falling Leaf/Fading Flower: Goodbye to Summer
Lies of Love
To Ellen
Pale Saints
Letters to She
Light Sliding
Big Clipper Ship
Scent on Evening Air
Drumming the Beating Heart
You Frighten
Through Eastfields
Three Kittens
Jane, Dancing
Invisibility
The Feeling's Mutual
Everpresent
Dusky Ruth
Others
China Blue Vision
Kodak Ghosts Run Amok
Plague of Years
Taking Steps
Avenue with Trees
