It’s been FORTY THREE years since the magic of Into Battle with the Art of Noise has been banging around in my head. Forty three chuffing years. Blimey. And now I’ve finally got a copy on CD.
I still proudly own the cassette EP that I first bought from Selectadisc back in the Fair City in 1983. It was the first official release on ZTT. I have vague memories of seeing a video on The Tube the night before, and taking a punt.
That cassette has long since been knackered and worn out. I rinsed it to death on an old Walkman whilst carrying out a paper round for a year or so. I remember it being such a cinematic sound as I walked around the family village, shoving some free sheet shit through the letterboxes as the light faded.
The CD that landed this morning contains the glorious 23 minutes of the original EP, plus 17 other tracks to stretch out the release. The beats still sound industrial, yet somehow soulful. Moments in Love remains LUSH.
