Hollow Hills

I'm So Hollow - Emotion/Sound/Motion

Ripped from a crackly vinyl album released on Illuminated Records (JAMS 5) in 1981 to high resolution 24-bit flac. Courtesy of Curious Guy comes the only album by Sheffield's I'm So Hollow. Not everybody in the steel-town were busy twiddling their knobs and loops in the quest for sonic industrial soundscapes or electronic synthetics, the Hollows stuck the basics of  post-punk however they turned the art of song structure on it's head with some quite unusual arrangements and just a little bit of electronic manipulation. No more so on the title track which harks back to more errrr... progressive influences. Great album and far too clever for the mainstream.

A1 Entrance

A2 Which Way..?

A3 Unbroken Line

A4 Touch

A5 Collisions

B1 Excitement = Change

B2 The Triangular Hour

B3 Emotion / Sound / Motion

B4 Nosferatu

B5 Distraction

Various Artists - 1980: The First Fifteen Minutes

Neutron - The First Fifteen Minutes

A rather special & somewhat obscure 7" 33rpm 4 track EP, released in 1979 on Sheffield's Neutron Records. The label was owned by Steve Singleton and Mark White of local electronic group, Vice Versa. They eventually recruited a local singer Martin Fry, bought gold lame suits and rechristened themselves as ABC. The first and best selling ABC album, The Lexicon of Love was actually released on Neutron.

The important fact about this EP was that it was Clock DVA's first vinyl release with the track Brigade.

Of the other groups, The Stunt Kites were just bad punk, Vice Versa owed more to early Kraftwerk than the local electronic pioneers and I'm So Hollow had limited, mostly local, success with their post-punk dirge.

A1. Brigade - Clock DVA

A2. Beautiful People - Stunt Kites

B1. Genetic Warfare - Vice Versa

B2. I Don't Know - I'm So Hollow

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