This review features samples from an interview I did with Mark two years ago, on Y’s anniversary, the moment when Mute Records put out an extended version of this legendary album on different sexy psychical formats. While many might consider the sound of Bristol something else than the post-punk funk dub, The Pop Group and their debut album demonstrate how you can make an LP that won't age and sounds, 40 years later, fresh as a Kalashnikov.
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Come 2021, and Y goes full charge into the dub dimension, with the mighty Warrior Dennis Bovell at the Controls. The band's music was and still is very far from what one might call pop in any decade, be it the seventies, eighties, nineties, or our present day. Sitting next to Keith Haring at Save All Robots And I found out from him that in 1979, at the tender age of 18, he and his band The Pop Group were channeling a far more mature power and stream of consciousness than what was happening in Bristol and the UK. Even though there is a 30-years generation gap between us, we are sonically on the same wavelength. Adrian Sherwood called Mark Stewart intimidating, but now, two years after we connected, I have a special relationship with the artist, philosopher, and poet.
The Pop Group’s debut LP, Y, is pure youth energy. I walked backward into the future with my eyes fixed in the past.
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