live sex
an expression of faith
studio recordings, first released in 1984 in Britain and America. a 5 star review in Sounds (Britain's third best music weekly at the time) calls it a 'monumental achievement'. Popular on the College radio circuit in the U.S., it features the classic songs 'Ayatollah', 'Baby Grenade', 'Heart of the Matter', 'Love Goes Hungry' and 'Beast' among others. LIVE SEX take 60's psychedelia, 70's glam and punk and 80's synth-pop and make something perfectly itself.
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pastoral improvisations from the crazed innocence of their youth, this is the essence of their creative act, veering from naive lyricism to lurching rock.
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further improvised music, of a more sophisticated character. As played by grumpy old John Peel on Radio 1, rather against his will, I thought. Extreme, unpredictable, aggressive and lyrical, late LIVE SEX is sinuous, fluid and astonishingly assured, for something teetering constantly on the edge of chaos.
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