Though this isn't necessarily designed to be an introduction to
Bpeople (ideally you might want to go with their two proper self-titled releases from 1981) the artful aesthetic they quietly championed is wholly evident on this collection of alternate takes and previously unreleased material. Though I haven't encountered any "no-wave" accusations leveled at these guys, Bpeople certainly weren't striving to land amongst the ubiquitous new romantic contingents hovering amidst their L.A. airspace. Instead, manicured dissonance was a more their bag, entailing flourishes of intermittent saxophone and choppy syncopation. Amidst these proclivities real songs frequently emerge from the avant detritus - "You at Eight," "In the Mind" and the chilling "The World's the Arrow," albeit falling well short of pop terrain. Mouthpiece/guitar wrangler
Alex Gibson bears parallels with that of the Wipers' Greg Sage, but that's likely more coincidence than adulation. To date, Bpeople's catalog hasn't been represented or preserved in the digital realm, at least not formally, but I guess that's what music blogs are for. I should also mention that contemporary to some of these recordings, Gibson unleashed a solo ep,
Passionel in '81.
01. Special Kind of Fun
02. Can Can't
03. I Said Everybody
04. The World's the Arrow
05. Give Up
06. Perseuction, That's My Song
07. The Thing
08. I Said Everybody (Vers 2)
09. You at Eight
10. In the Mind
11. Weather to Worry
12. MPCD
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