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Approved: Poly Styrene – Thrash City
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 17 January 2011
Although only around for a couple of years in their original incarnation, just about long enough to release one album, X-ray Spex definitely left their mark on the late seventies British punk scene, and they remain influential to this day, especially for girl-fronted rock bands, including the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Gossip.
Thirty years on from a previous solo album, and fifteen years after a short mid-nineties reformation of X-ray Spex that resulted in a second long player, the band’s iconic frontwoman Poly Styrene is having another go at a solo career, having recently spent time in the studio with rather fine producer man Youth.
The result of that collaboration, an album called ‘Generation Indigo’, will be unleashed in March, and as a taster a track has been posted on Ms Styrene’s website. And whereas her first solo outing back in 1980 moved away from the punky rock sound of X-ray Spex, this one is more in that territory, albeit with a slightly more accessible pop feel to it than the punk band’s original output. I like it. Go see.
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