Attrition / Alu, by ATTRITION / ALU

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Artwork by: Oleg Galay www.behance.net/goworks
Remastered by: Martin Bowes @ The Cage www.thecagestudios.co.uk
Pressing by: MonotypePressing monotypepressing.pl

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1.	Attrition - I saw you slowly 04:57		buy track
2.	Attrition - Monkey in a bin 03:06		buy track
3.	Attrition - How about that, dum dum 04:43		buy track
4.	Attrition - Day I was born 03:55		buy track
5.	Attrition / Alu [ album promo video ] - Attrition - Onslaught 05:19 video	info	buy track
6.	Attrition - You will remember nothing 07:06		buy track
7.	Alu - Chassa 06:01		buy track
8.	Alu - Unaba 04:39		buy track
9.	Alu - Vendetta 08:20		buy track
10.	Alu - Chi Chi 08:07		buy track
11.	Alu - Intox 02:58		buy track

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Peripheral Minimal Records are proud to present : PM29 Attrition / Alu “Attrition / Alu” CD. Reissued for the first time.

This self-titled split album seemingly accentuates the desolate paranoia of the 1980’s cold-war period by both acts’ usage of daunting electronic instrumentation, post-industrial angst and a generous helping of existentialist experimentalism. It’s perhaps unsurprising then that both Attrition and ALU hail from two cities [Coventry and Berlin] utterly destroyed by the constant bombing raids of the RAF and the Luftwaffe during WW2. Rebuilt into ultimately, naïve idealistic visions of the future, i.e. ring-roads, underpasses, Brutalist high-rise concrete blocks and a sense of utilitarian post-modernist uniformity, not to mention a sense of dystopian dread.

"Creating and exploring rich shadowy electronic soundscapes...interweaving the ephemeral with the operatic, the sound can at once calm your soul and chill your bones..." - The Hatchet [on Attrition]

The resultant recordings recall works by other artists who were working in a similarly discordant fashion, specifically, Cabaret Voltaire, Nocturnal Emissions or even the abstract, absurdist and surrealist collage-noise of Nurse With Wound. It is without doubt forgotten treasure, repackaged and remastered as an antidote to 21st century disquiet.

"We aim to store as many sounds, noise and rhythmic frameworks as possible in our synthesizers and drum machines as we allow them to unfold naturally when we play live. Words and vocals are snapshots, spontaneous phenomena." - ALU [1983]

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released February 10, 2020

ALU

Hannes Vester - Synthesizer, Bass Guitar [Rhythm Bass Machine Guitar]
Nadja Molt - Vocals, Other [Front Acts]

ATTRITION

Martin Bowes - Vocals, Synthesizers, Effects, Tapes
Julia Waller - Bass, Vocals
Ashley Niblock – Synthesizer

Remastered by Martin Bowes @ The Cage Studios, Coventry, October 2019. Artwork reimagined by Oleg Galay. Copyright Peripheral Minimal Records 2019 / 20.

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