RE-PRESS: CD ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN 2017

Extensive 5CD/book set exploring the evolution of the Goth movement, from the glacial post-punk of the late 1970s through positive punk and into the Batcave era, dark electronica and beyond.

Featuing over 80 classics, rarities, album tracks and hidden gems from The Cure, Joy Division, Sisters Of Mercy, PiL, The Birthday Party, Adam And The Ants, The Mission, Southern Death Cult, Fields Of The Nephilim, All About Eve, Alien Sex Fiend, Bauhaus, Ausgang, Nico and many more

A 5CD set in a 48page A5 book format containing many artists’ own sleevenotes, previously unseen photographs and an essay from Natasha Scharf (The Art Of Gothic, Worldwide Gothic, Prog, Metal Hammer)

Curated and designed by the people who brought you ‘Scared To Get Happy’, ‘Still In A Dream’, ‘Close To The Noise Floor’ and many more excellent and extensive box sets.

An intense journey through the shadowy underside of the UK’s post-punk alternative culture.

In the wake of punk rock, and after 20 years of carefully packaged pop and rock fantasy, cold reality finally kicked in the doors of the music industry. Overnight, a generation raised on aspirational boy meets girl tales, the clichés of rock ‘n roll excess and the unreachable otherworldliness of glam and progressive rock were freed to pour truth and their everyday experience into their music.

In no time at all, a dark, brutal sensibility crept into the UK’s post-punk wasteland, reflecting the political, social and spiritual situation. Thoughts and feelings that pop music had repressed for decades were at last unleashed as the anger, the frustration, the self- loathing and the disenchantment flowed. The instrumentation, imagery, appearance and attitudes varied wildly from tribe to tribe in this primordial, year zero atmosphere, but by the late 1970s a gothic sensibility had taken root which reset the boundaries of musical and lyrical expression forever…