Wednesday, January 27, 2010

The Wake - Of The Matter

The Wake started out as an atmospheric synth-pop band, along the lines of "Thieves Like Us"-era New Order. At times they even remind me of a hazier-sounding Pet Shop Boys. No, really. They weren't very well known, which is only fair because there wasn't really anything spectacular about them. But they had the nice song here and there, like this Factory single from 1985.

Later on they resurfaced on Sarah and, sounding like a totally different band, they put out a few decent if (again) not particularly inspiring indiepop records before disappearing again in the mid-1990s, seemingly for good.

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