Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Day 0424 - Germfree Adolescents

X-Ray Spex "Germfree Adolescents" (1978)


I was quite interested in this one, partly because I think the cover is kind of groovy. Plus the lead singer sounds like a kind of an interesting lady. She went on to renounce punk after having a religious vision, and made a couple of more mellow albums under her own name. Then she left music altogether to focus on her Krishnan studies.

The music is pretty enjoyable punk rock.  The saxophone adds an extra flavour to the mix.  All in all it's like a mix of Roxy Music, the Runaways and the Stooges.  It's full of raw aggression, and Poly Styrene has a hell of a yell on her.

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