Each Sunday, Pitchfork takes an in-depth look at a significant album from the past, and any record not in our archives is eligible. Today, we look back at the inimitable chanteur’s 1985 solo record, a dapper work of exquisite pop perfectionism.
A new reissue revisits the Mumbai composer’s 1982 album of Roland TB-303 and Indian raga, which uncannily anticipated the sound of Chicago acid house by five years.
The band’s second album by the same title is an unclassifiable mood piece: a strangely heightened world of desperate characters and hooks like enervated simulacra of more familiar songs.
Nine years since their last album, the Providence punks return with another record dripping with righteous fury—and a punchier, newly polished sound to get the message across as clearly as possible.