Roaring out of late ‘70s Redditch, The Cravats played neurotic Weimar cabaret art punk, spitting clipped satirical statements and blowing fog horn brass, whilst John Peel lamented his failure to make them famous.
Here’s their first album, and all their early singles, a listening experience akin to being hit over the head, repeatedly and rhythmically, with a saxophone whilst an incredibly clever anarchist autodidact shouts in your face.
A second disc of the same album, decisively and dynamically remixed by Crass’ Penny Rimbaud, adds punch, presence, and some sympathetic samples, to the band’s undeniably inventive sound and deceptively complex musicianship.
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