Monganaut wrote: Nice selection there. I've come to enjoy the League's Dignity of Labour EP more in me dotage than I ever did as a nipper. In fact, buying it on the back of the Sound of The Crowd 12", it#s paranoid sounds freaked me out bit, even when they were trying to be uplifting. I thought, What the fuck are those bizarre and unsettling noises doing on a record by a pop band? The free flexi of the band discussing their mission statement left me frankly scratching me head too. Over the years I've heard snatches of the EP sampled all over the place, Jack Dangers of Meat Beat Manifesto being one of the earliest I recall on the Storm the Studio album.
Yeah, it's a great EP, definitely outside their usual sound, even for the original line-up. Funnily it fits in better with my formative electronic introduction via 1970s Jean Michel Jarre than with the synth pop which followed.
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