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Band/Record: Mass - Labour Of Love

Label/Matrix: UK 1981 4AD Beggars Banquet CAD 107 with A1/B1 ,,tape one - or lake''

Condition Record/Sleeve: Mint-/EX 

Extra Info: Fantastic Album !! Original UK 1st press LP on 4AD ..wow .. minty dream audio ..top copy ..UK POST PUNK KILLER!!

~~ (julian cope) I know this hath been reissued only recently but I really had to review this because this was always the Holy Grail of British Post-Punk for me. I first read about this in an old issue of The Offense fanzine with the review suggesting that it could literally cause bridges to collapse, which seemed like the band I've always wanted to hear. Alas, I never found a copy or knew where to look, and t'was never put on CD until now... Of course I did know this band was what was left over from noise-punk legends Rema Rema, and would eventually turn into the increasingly more indie-popish trio the Wolfgang Press -- most etched in my memory the grand-and-gripping orchestral epic "I Am the Crime" amongst others...

Hark! I got a taste of the Herald Angels finding the Natures Mortes collection second-hand, featuring the single "You And I" (appearing on the new CD version of Labour along with the b-side "Cabbage"...) Neither sounding like what came before or after, led by Mark Cox's Farfisa and drums sounding like things being thrown downstairs, and a bitter and plaintive Cockney vocal by Michael Allen barely masking severe disappointment and contempt. If you read the lyrics of "You And I" included in the insert of this CD it gives the hint that drug dependancy was involved. But one of the most beautiful things I've heard in a long time that made me still wish I could find that album!

But hearing the whole release for the first time this seems to pick-up from where Rema Rema's Wheel In The Roses left off, except a bit heavier and odd. Cox retains the EDP Wasp (I'm assuming) but the organ seems more like his signature instrument here, with Gary Asquith's glass-cutter guitar and Danny Briottet's gut-punching kick-drum abuse -- latter two to later form dance-rock outfit Renegrade Soundwave, but you wouldn't tell that from hearing this! There's elements of Bauhaus, PiL, Joy Division, Swell Maps and even Factrix if that's possible(!), and alot of moments -- jumping a couple of decades -- even remind me of Pengo of all things!

Most amazing is the starter simply called "Mass" -- no, not exactly "Hey Hey We're the Monkees"! More like Michale Graves playing another Con Job Punk fundraiser except someone's spiked the punchbowl with cough syrup, bad acid and heroin. It seems like four different songs on one track! Plenty of other noisy mayhem such as "Ill" (speaks for itself really), "Isn't Life Nice" and "Elephant Talk". Rounding it all off officially with "Innocence" -- sounding closer to 'You And I" but there's a hint at something quite uplifting and towards the sparse textures of the later Wolfgang Press album Burden Of Mules.

And after all that "You And I" sounds markedly different in the context of this reissue than on Natures Mortes. (What d'ya know!) And the racket of "Cabbage" is the LSD-laced icing on a hash-cake relic of post-punk noise.

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Please read instructions before bidding: I offer combined shipping. If you have paid too much for shipping, I will refund a.s.a.p Please take a look at the shipping rates below for multiple discount We are experienced graders and grade under good light. Please advice our method of grading below. If new to eBay, please read instructions below, if questions please ask.

Band/Record: Mass - Labour Of Love

Label/Matrix: UK 1981 4AD Beggars Banquet CAD 107 with A1/B1 ,,tape one or lake''

Condition Record/Sleeve: Mint-/EX 

Extra Info: Fantastic Album In Great Collectible Condition!

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Return policy and After sales: I stand for the quality of my vinyl so i will take back records if necessary. However, i will only take back if buyer agrees to share the the costs of the return postage. This means full refund + 50% of return shipping costs. All packages will be sent with registered mail. If a package is delayed please communicate. Good communication leads to good solution.

Shipping: All records will be carefully packed by me and I do not charge handling. Shipping will take place with air/priority mail to the paypal adres used and "signed for" only. Packages above 2kg will be shipped with TNT Global Express with track & trace code. Please take a look at the shipping rates. Combined shipping is offered. Please take a closer look at my shipping rates. Packages till 2kg and 5kg are relatively cheap also worldwide, so take your advantage !! Please take a closer look at the shipping rates:

EU I: Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, France, Italy, Luxenbourg, Austria, Spain, U.K and Sweden

EU II: Bulgaria, Estland, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Letland, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slowakia and Czech Republick

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