Conscious Consumer (2023 Reissue)
by X-Ray Spex
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The highly sought after album received a very limited CD only release in 1995 on Receiver Records in the UK and has been officially unavailable for the past 27 years. Conscious Consumer reunited the iconic X-Ray Spex vocalist,Poly Styrene, with original X-Ray Spex saxophonist, Lora Logic, and bassist, Paul Dean, as well as guitar from Kula Shaker frontman Crispian Mills (under his then pseudonym Red Spectre).
This release has been remastered from the original master tapes and is available on LP for the first time ever. Including the original and expanded artwork, including previously unpublished lyrics and original sleeve notes from Poly.
In recent years the late Poly Styrene and X-Ray Spex have achieved iconic status with their 1978 debut Germfree Adolescents, but the group’s follow up album Conscious Consumer, released 17 years later, had been lost to the sands of time. This lovingly compiled revisit puts the spotlight on a lost gem that has many of the hallmarks of the debut but is sieved through a different lens. Conscious Consumer was an upgrade of the classic debut with a same punk rock urgency and themes of consumerism but with a poppier edge and a more considered wisdom gleamed from the ups and downs of life from the perspective of an older, wiser, Krishna devotee.
The band who also re-formed in 1991, 1995 and 2008 are now revered worldwide for sparking a new kind of attitude in music. The late Poly is now a pop culture pin-up for an originality and feminism that barely existed at the time. Her acerbic, witty and brilliant lyrics and distinctive voice have stood the test of time, and along with the band’s original sax player Lora Logic, she has become part of the punk rock narrative. The fuzzy snapshots of the brief early lineup see the sassy and sharp dressed teenager core oozing talent, originality and style in a freeze frame of pop culture punk rock perfection.
This release has been remastered from the original master tapes and is available on LP for the first time ever. Including the original and expanded artwork, including previously unpublished lyrics and original sleeve notes from Poly.
In recent years the late Poly Styrene and X-Ray Spex have achieved iconic status with their 1978 debut Germfree Adolescents, but the group’s follow up album Conscious Consumer, released 17 years later, had been lost to the sands of time. This lovingly compiled revisit puts the spotlight on a lost gem that has many of the hallmarks of the debut but is sieved through a different lens. Conscious Consumer was an upgrade of the classic debut with a same punk rock urgency and themes of consumerism but with a poppier edge and a more considered wisdom gleamed from the ups and downs of life from the perspective of an older, wiser, Krishna devotee.
The band who also re-formed in 1991, 1995 and 2008 are now revered worldwide for sparking a new kind of attitude in music. The late Poly is now a pop culture pin-up for an originality and feminism that barely existed at the time. Her acerbic, witty and brilliant lyrics and distinctive voice have stood the test of time, and along with the band’s original sax player Lora Logic, she has become part of the punk rock narrative. The fuzzy snapshots of the brief early lineup see the sassy and sharp dressed teenager core oozing talent, originality and style in a freeze frame of pop culture punk rock perfection.
Released: December 2023
Cat: DYI027LPC
Label: Do Yourself In
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Tracklist
1. Cigarettes
2. Junk Food Junkie
3. Crystal Clear
4. India
5. Dog In Sweden
6. Hi Chaperone
7. Good Time Girl
8. Melancholy
9. Sophia
10. Peace Meal
11. Prayer For Peace
12. Party