ZOUNDS – “Curse Of The Zounds” LP

Fresh from their debut 7″ on Crass Records, the squatter punks of Reading/London(and Yeovil!) found a new home in Rough Trade Records, and in five days of the year 1981 recorded and mixed their debut full-length. Complete with the subversive artwork of anarchist illustrator Clifford Harper – firemen putting out the burning houses of parliament? Flip it over and actually the fireman are hosing the flames with petrol – genius! The music contained within was the ’77 punk of Alternative TV and Wire filtered through the fraught disharmony of 1980’s Britain, making a dark, defiant indie-pop/post-punk classic that still carries the full weight of it’s social/political relevance into the present day, and beyond…