STRAW MAN ARMY - "Age of Exile" LPStraw Man Army Age of Exile LP (D4MT, 2020) Ive lost track of how many times Ive listened to Age of Exile in the past few weeks. I got a preview before it came out and on the first listen I was hooked. My first impression was that it sounded like Kaleidoscope (with whom Straw Man Army shares members), but its reaching toward something more like the song oriented anarcho punk of Zounds and Crisis. Ive been playing this record into the ground in the

more of a sonic conversation between them than a conventional collaboration

There are web sites with detailed histories of the group and several bootlegs of demos and live material from 1977-79

mixed with sampled voices that recall Art of Noise influences

I can't remember with 100% certainty where I bought a copy when it first came out

“— / Haunted

"Employees must pray for the franchise before returning to work

the nineties and the first half of the aughts were an era of “firsts”

this was the last of their three albums that I heard

Just sit back and enjoy the rich madness of Early Worm

thanks to the song's beautiful

especially when the track suddenly stops and re-emerges as a slightly softer Detroit-influenced affair

improvisation was in retreat