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The Lucy Show
...Undone
Words On Music
A minor classic, The Lucy Show's 1985 debut ...Undone arrived awash in Bunnymen-like post-punk and shoegazing melodiscim. Led by singer Mark Bandola, this London quartet may have been short-lived (the band broke up after 1987's Mania) but this initial offering was a dark and portentous blast of psychedelic pop that prefigured the likes of everyone from The Stone Roses to Blur. "Ephemeral (This Is No Heaven)" and "Resistance" boast big hooks tucked between angular guitars and careening bass lines; the chiming riffs of "Come Back To The Living" are as memorable now as they were twenty five years ago, while the dreamy "The White Space" is truly mesmeric. Deeper in, the title track summons the moody gothica of The Cure; "Better On The Hard Side" is a junior epic and the galloping album closer "Dream Days" is a thundering blast of swirling psychedelia played tough and mean. Quizzically, this reissue lacks any bonus material or accompanying liner notes, but to be fair these eleven tracks need no assistance from the present to amplify their glorious past.
—Alex Green
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