V/a / Messthetics # 105 - Diy And Indie Post-punk From Scotland

Messthetics

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CD
$12.25
105 CD
880270218820
Street Date:
January 14th, 2008
Ship Date:
January 14th, 2008

Messthetics' first Scottish installment focuses on a brief, intense scene of ardently independent bands who got started rubbing shoulders with 1977 punk then paid no attention at all to London after that. (London returned the favor.) The sound was based on guitars of all sorts, ingeniously skewed melodies and unashamed local accents. Naturally, it all fell apart as soon as "The Sound of Young Scotland" became a marketable commodity, but they left behind a rich cache of lost 'alternative' hits. Features twenty-four songs on the CD, along with nine bonus MP3 tracks, and a 24-page booklet lovingly documented with histories, and photos galores. Features songs from Fire Engines, Scrotum Poles, 35mm Dreams, The Exile, Commercials, Fakes, Metropak, Tony Pilley, Visitors, Article 58, Radio Ghosts, Rapid Dance, Strutz, Vertical Smiles, Restricted Code, Brills, Rhythm Method, He's Dead Jim, Paul Reekie, and Friction, The Dirty Reds, 35mm Dreams, Jazzateers, International Spys, Ettes, and more.