Live At The Roxy Club

X-Ray Spex, “Live At The Roxy Club” (Receiver, 1991; original recording 1977)
At the venue that was ground zero for the UK punk explosion, here’s the short-lived original line-up of the Spex, with Lora Logic on sax. The lurid, glaring sing-song glee of the band’s indelible tunes of modern alienation-as-fun (or vice versa) are here brought into stark relief by a sonic attack where bopping rock-and-roll beats that keep veering off into the wall drive joy-buzzer guitar, sax and vocals that keep dancing onto each other’s feet. Chaos at its most glorious.
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4/7/19