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IKE YARD - Night After Night (Record Store Day 2020) - Vinyl (12")
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September 12, 2023
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December 25, 2022
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Free delivery on many items. Same-day despatch, no-question returns. Authorised dealers - full technical support. Online since 1997. Shop categories Information IKE YARD Night After Night (Record Store Day 2020) (limited red vinyl 12") Superior Viaduct US
Cat: SV 045. Rel: 14 Sep 20
Coldwave/Synth
Side 1 - Track 1. Night After NightSide 1 - Track 2. Sense Of MaleSide 1 - Track 3. InfratonSide 2 - Track 1. MotivSide 2 - Track 2. Cherish
If this is your first run in with New York's Ike Yard then Factory Records might be a good place to start - these guys were the first US act to sign with the iconic but doomed Manchester label back in the day, and that says a lot about what to expect from their output. This was their first EP, released in 1981, making their proto-post punk and no wave trappings all the more groundbreaking.
The five tracks still stand up today, and certainly compare with some of the era and canon's definitive names. It would be unfair to say you can hear A Certain Ratio, Joy Division or Section 25 here, though, as Ike Yard were doing this at roughly same time to those UK counterparts, so it's less about mimicry and more a sign of just how necessary noises like this were back then.
