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England's Scritti Politti truly spread the gospel of DIY with their 1978 debut, Skank Bloc Bologna. The Xerox-art sleeve featured precise details on what they spent to make the record (example: eight pounds for white, rubber-stamped labels). The shoestring economics belie the art-attack depth of the original trio's three EPs, all bundled here: socialist ire set to bent-reggae rhythms and skeletal-twang guitars and sung with watery delicacy by singer Green Gartside. You also hear that rattling magnetism mutate as Gartside takes Scritti's name for himself, initiating a fitful career as a matinee-idol soulman in 1981 with the hovering sigh of "The Sweetest Girl," a stark beauty that proves drum machines can be sexy.
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Track List
- Skank Bloc Bologna
- Is and Ought the Western World
- 28/8/78
- Scritlocks Door
- OPEC - Immac
- Messthetics
- Hegemony
- Bibbly-O-Tek
- Double Beat
- Confidence
- P.A.S.
- The 'Sweetest Girl'
- Lions After Slumber
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