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Crash Course in Science: “Factory Forehead”
From the album Signals from Pier Thirteen (1981)
Behold the latest installment in my ongoing archaeology of the weird music lineage in Philadelphia, this piece by the apparently short-lived electro-pop trio Crash Course in Science.
I recently watched the superb BBC documentary “Synth Britannia,” about the synth-pop/early industrial scene in the U.K. circa 1980, and I’m wondering if CCIS represent a parallel movement in the United States. Although they seem to be more indebted to the deliberate crudeness of the punk aesthetic than are their British counterparts, the band’s sound is as noisy and synthetic as anything I’ve heard by early Human League or Cabaret Voltaire.
An excellent video of the band performing on TV can be viewed at WFMU.
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November 28, 2009, 8:41pm
