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Artist: Easter and the Totem
Album: The Sum Is Greater Than Its Parts (1986, Idealogical Sound)
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Year: 1986
Genre: D.I.Y. / Post-Punk
RIAA Radar Status: SAFE
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Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
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Avg Bit Rate: 211 kbps
Posted by: smallpaul
Description / Review:
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S.S. Records wrote:
“There was Mike Barry (age 18), Ian Self (age 18), and a Drum Machine. In those days, all you needed was a couple of long coats, a mutal love of the Fall and Joy Division, a pile of existential books, Kafka, Camus, Dostoyevsky, etc and some lager. They took their name from a Jackson Pollock painting. It was Summer of 1981 and the band was as rough as a bears arse.” And, that is the origin of Easter & The Totem.
Tromping around South London through most of the 1980s, Easter & the Totem released three LPs (the first one at the urging of John Peel) and a few singles. The Sum Is Greater Than Its Parts is the band’s second full length. Recorded between 1982 and 1985 – a year and a half break in between – the band takes its original influences of the Fall and Joy Division and surges into angry, pop-enhanced, DIY-stamped rock & roll. The Sum Is Greater Than Its Parts has a sound similar to yet less polished than contemporaries The Smiths and Echo & the Bunnymen.
Propelled Mike Barry’s acidic lyrics and by drummer Steve Mountain, Easter & the Totem perfectly capture working class rock & roll discontent with Margaret Thatcher and the 1980s UK. That the band never signed to a major wasn’t due to their lack of great tunes, but because the band would rather have fun playing benefits for the Bromley Unemployed Group and the South London Musicians Collective than yucking it up with the suits. Good thing for our ears: Easter & the Totem’s non-carreerist approach to rock & pop ages extremely well, not bogged down by the studio fads and major label production that killed some of their peers. And their lyrics are just as relevant today as there were back when Thatcher ruled England.
The Sum Is Greater Than Its Parts was originally released in 1985 on Mike Barry’s Ideological Sounds label in a pretty small pressing. While it never got mass distribution, a few copies snuck out. We at Ss Records HQ stumbled on a copy in the early 90s the back room of a record store (score!) and spun it so many times, we finally put it on our “to reissue” list.
Track Listing
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[01/09] Modern Romantic (2:38)
[02/09] At Full Stretch (2:26)
[03/09] Dreams in Isolation (2:58)
[04/09] Irritant Urge (2:45)
[05/09] We Fade (3:12)
[06/09] Distant Generations (3:21)
[07/09] Stripped Down (3:16)
[08/09] Acid Reign (4:33)
[09/09] Days After (6:45)
Total playing time: 31:54
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