The Lucy Show - ...Undone

It's Christmas Eve (unless you're in Australia, Japan, China, Middle East...) and here is a present from me to you all. ...Undone is a stone cold classic from the dark corners of everyones past. You might not have known that The Lucy Show even existed back in the day, so here's you chance to get aquainted. Across both my blogs I've been dropping little bits of The Lucy Show here and there...maybe you've seen one and curiosity got the better of you, maybe you haven't. So here, on Christmas Eve it's your chance to click on the link, download yourself a moment of pleasure. Relax with a glass of your favourite alcoholic tipple, have a bitesize chocolate or two, and enjoy. 

This is like the 1979-1981 heyday years of English post-punk pop brought back and updated. Undone glistens and shimmers like a pool rippling with subconscious sensations. The two main songwriters/singers, Mark Bandola and Rob Vandeven, are apparently from Canada, but moved to London to take part in the scene that gave us a more ethereal wash of sound than anything Western Canada would know anything about. Their relocation has worked like gangbusters. "Ephemeral (This Is No Heaven)," the title track, "The White Space," and others hold a music fan spellbound in their textural beauty, the latest to take advantage of the endless brooding, moody undercurrents the best Brit-rock has been full of since Magazine, Joy Division, the early Siouxsie & the Banshees, Sad Lovers and Giants, and many others. And the songwriting is top-notch, too; you get the feeling these people know their classic ‘60s rock and pop too, and sneak in some of that great melodic sweetness to go with the shimmer and shake. Take this, the Sound's Shock of Daylight and Heads and Hearts, and the Chameleons' What Does Anything Mean? Basically, and 1985 has provided for you every quiet and inner sensation that you ever felt. Masterpieces all, but again, this is the most important of the four, since it’s the only one that’s a first album. Remarkable. Also remarkable: unlike the above, somehow the band got a U.S. deal with major distribution.

Ripped from the album to a more ethereal wash of MP3 @ 320kbps

The Lucy Show; Undone

A1.  Ephemeral (This Is Not Heaven)

A2.  Resistance

A3.  Comeback To The Living

A4.  The White Space

A5.  Wipe Out

A6.  The Twister

B1.  Undone

B2.  Remain

B3.  Better On The Hard Side

B4.  Remembrances

B5.  Dream Days