Lives Of Angels - Elevator To Eden LP

Lives Of Angels’ 1983 LP got a flogging on our shop turntable late last year when it got reprinted but I’m only realising never got a proper write up!

An album taped with a weird odds-and-ends array of strung together gear units (read about it in the liner notes) it’s got that odd DIY charm that comes with tinkering with guitars and drum machines and infectious melodies at home.

Overwrought genre signifiers like “minimal wave” only go so far in describing this collection. Think songwriting that approaches the Go-Betweens but with a motorik-esque drum machine underpinning the whole thing, or for the more locally inclined, the a precursor to Orion/The Lewers!
-Mitch