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hull down

by The Lines

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David Bracegirdle
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David Bracegirdle I can see why Mr Orbit loves working with Rico Conning. This thing is so fresh it hasn't been born yet. Unreleased for near on 30 years I cannot imagine many things coming out of that experience with the same urgency, relevance, invention and goddam feeling of #what could have been. 'Never released' work sometimes deserves to be accidentally wiped or given to the charity shop by mistake. Here we have a stunning exception. Cryogenically frozen cool brought in from the 80s. Favorite track: Flat Feet.
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Flat Feet 05:18
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Zoko AM3 03:34
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Raffle 04:48
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Archway 05:03
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Haberdasher 07:29

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Acute Records is excited to present our latest and final release, the “lost” third album by The Lines. After the release of their cult-classic singles, EPs, and LPs (compiled on Acute’s "Memory Span" and "Flood Bank" releases), The Lines continued to record, first in a series of home experiments and then in William Orbit’s Guerilla Studios. Unfortunately, these recordings were never finalized as band members began to drift apart.

Singer and multi-instrumentalist Rico Conning continued working at Guerilla, spending the better part of the 80s engineering and remixing such artists as Wire, Coil, Renegade Soundwave, Depeche Mode and many others of your favorite bands, often in collaboration with Mute’s Daniel Miller.

Some of the skills utilized on those era-defining records are prefigured in the more dance-oriented selections on hull down, such as the new wave grooves of “Single Engine Duster” and “Raffle” or the vocoder electro-funk of “Where in the World.” These tracks marry drum machine programming with classic post-punk textures in a way not dissimilar to other artists making the post-punk to dancefloor transition circa 1983. Songs like “Flat Feet” and “Archway” recall the atmospheric post-punk dub of their prior LPs, but with a decidedly more electronic sheen. Other compositions include instrumental experiments exploring cross-sections between home-recorded DIY post-punk and sequencer rhythms.

Over 20 years after these sessions, the original cassette tapes were dusted off and different incarnations have been blended or cross-faded to create a version of what might’ve been a third LP, an alternate 80s where The Lines continued developing and exploring.

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released May 13, 2016

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The Lines London, UK

The Lines were formed in 1977 by Rico Conning and Jo Forty, recording and performing until 1982.

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