Thursday, June 4, 2009

Glorious Din - Red Dirt

Here's another obscure American '80s band. I don't know very much about them, except that I think they were from San Francisco and their singer was of Sri Lankan origin, which is something you don't see every day. Unless you're from Sri Lanka. They were often compared to Joy Division which I think you can hear in the production; there's definitely a Martin Hannett/Factory sort of sound there, although with rather more prominent vocals. I bet they were amazing live.

This is from their second (and final?) album, Closely Watched Trains. As far as I know it was released in 1987 although it sounds pretty 1981 to me.

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