Consumer Guide Album
Pylon: Chain [Sky, 1990]
Their low registers, deliberate silences, and inexorably unmechanical beat all feed a muscular musical solidity with no real parallels--10 years after, the only band that sounds remotely similar is the Gang of Four, who are frantically neurasthenic by comparison. Of course, the Gof4 hoped to change the world, where Pylon mean only to transcend it, which is only possible till the music's over. So 10 years after, maybe Vanessa's relatively down-to-earth lyrics mean she's headed in the right direction. And while the music's on you can still get lost in it.
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