Entomology [Limited Edition] by Josef K (CD, 2006)

Domino

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Josef K

CD

2006

New Wave

Entomology [Limited Edition]

Rock

Thanks to an endorsement from Franz Ferdinand (and a little song called "A Girl Like You" by frontman Edwyn Collins), Scottish pop band Orange Juice gets all the name recognition, but within the world of taut, jangly, slightly funky art-rock, fellow Glaswegians Josef K are surely as important as their citrusy brethren. Josef K were never the easiest band to track down stateside, so Domino's 22-track ENTOMOLOGY is a more than welcome, if not outright essential, reissue. Consisting of the band's obscure early singles for famed Postcard Records, tracks from the band's two full-lengths, and a 1981 Peel Session, the collection isn't exactly definitive, but it's an excellent introduction to and portrait of an ignored band that, whether one notices or not, has its fingerprints all over the early 2000s' new New Wave.

Entertainment Weekly (p.83) - "Singer Paul Haig's wry wit and guitarist Malcolm Ross' menacing jangle shine on songs like 'Fun 'n' Frenzy'..." -- Grade: A- Q (p.150) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[A] string of wonderful singles that still exert an influence today." The Wire (p.66) - "[T]he Edinburgh quartet's barbed music -- piercing guitar tones etching melancholic runs as if on glass -- became one of the defining sounds of post-punk." Mojo (Publisher) (p.128) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "'Heaven Sent' and 'The Missionary' are exceptional, propulsive punk funk, utterly unsurpassed."

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