Pylon - Gyrate (Remastered) '1980/2020

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       Athens, Georgia may have been the breeding ground for the B-52's, but in
1978 it was, for the most part, still a sleepy college town with few places for
bands to play when Pylon began to cohere. (It's worth remembering that the
B-52's had almost exclusively played house parties before moving to New York and
becoming a sensation.) Like more than a few great and original groups, Pylon
came together without much of a support system or many firsthand influences;
they were young people creating their own art and making their own fun with it.
While it wasn't their first release (the epochal "Cool"/"Dub" single preceded it
by seven months), 1980's Gyrate caught Pylon on tape when they were still
clearly fascinated with their own creative possibilities, though they were tight
enough to sound elemental and straightforward rather than amateurish. The
skittery chiming of Randy Bewley's guitar and the expressive whisper-to-a-scream
report of Vanessa Briscoe Hay's vocals give this music plenty of brains, and the
lean, minimal rhythms generated by bassist Michael Lachowski and drummer Curtis
Crowe lend it all a strong, muscular body; at a time when America was just
falling out of love with disco, Gyrate was a reminder that there was more than
one way to make music for dancing. As smart as this music was, it was also fun
and engaging in a way that many of their peers and followers were not. Gyrate is
full of joy and subtle, surreal wit, and if it sometimes sounds like the work of
arty grad students, they're still grad students who want to cut loose and get in
the groove, and that's exactly what they do. Gyrate is a classic touchstone of
the American underground scene of the '80s, and it sounds as fresh, challenging,
and exciting as the day it was released. R.E.M. would become a lot more famous,
but Pylon were the band that made the world aware that there was something
remarkable happening in Athens, and this was their first triumph.

Tracklist:
1 01. Pylon - Volume (Remastered) (04:13)
1 02. Pylon - Feast on My Heart (Remastered) (03:35)
1 03. Pylon - Precaution (Remastered) (02:48)
1 04. Pylon - Weather Radio (Remastered) (02:16)
1 05. Pylon - The Human Body (Remastered) (03:11)
1 06. Pylon - Read a Book (Remastered) (02:02)
1 07. Pylon - Driving School (Remastered) (03:53)
1 08. Pylon - Gravity (Remastered) (02:37)
1 09. Pylon - Danger (Remastered) (05:38)
1 10. Pylon - Working Is No Problem (Remastered) (03:29)
1 11. Pylon - Stop It (Remastered) (03:06) 

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