Saturday, February 12, 2022

Crawl Away Machine - s/t ep (1985, CD Presents)

Definitely a good 'un, but as with the situation with scores of other records on this site, another sheer cold case. Released on San Fran's CD Presents (the label that brought us the Avengers classic album) Crawl Away Machine bore a clangy, post-punk veneer with an emphasis clearly on substance over style. A co-ed five-piece (featuring male vox almost exclusively). Vaguely recalling everyone from Comsat Angels to The Fixx, and even a dab of Bauhaus, CAM had the downcast, anglophile thing down pat without resorting to anything trite or calculated to arrive at that destination. Not a bum tune in the bunch with my only complaint being that four weren't nearly enough.

01. Maps of Asia
02. Look Down
03. Americana
04. Pieces

Hear

1 comment:

Callista Graves said...

Hello,

I came across this page while looking for music from Bamff, and it appears as though the one link is no longer available, for the album Come Outside.

What’s the chance of a repost happening?