Description

1LP Vinyl – FIRELP140

As with most of ESG's music, the tracks on Come Away consist of little more than percussion, bass guitar and sassy lead vocals, most of which are party chants that prefigure house music's sampled hooks ("the beat / what moves your feet yeah / the beat"). Some are instrumentals that, despite being played by a band, could be described as beat tools—for any DJ slick enough to fit them in, "Tiny Sticks," "Parking Lot Blues" and "Chistelle" would do just fine in a club. Others have richer arrangements, like the untouchable "Moody (Spaced Out)," which, with its gloomy reverb, cosmic synths and haunting bass hook, sounds like a funky cousin to something on Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures, which, in a way, it is—both were produced by Factory Records' studio mastermind, Martin Hannett.