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Mushâs Dan Hyndman savors every syllable. On the Leeds post-punk bandâs second album, the vocalist and guitarist delivers five-dollar phrases with obvious glee, offering acerbic commentary ripped from international headlines. Songs about Russian bots meddling in elections and drinking bleach to cure COVID-19 could only be written in the present day, but
Lines Redacted also serves as a monument to the bandâs late guitarist Steven Tyson, whose versatile shredding defined their sound.
Mush first earned attention with their 2017 single âAlternative Facts,â named for the nonsense phrase Kellyanne Conway used to justify former White House press secretary Sean Spicerâs lies about the size of the crowd at Donald Trumpâs inauguration. Nearly 10 minutes long, the song became a surprise favorite of BBC Radio 6 DJ Marc Riley, showcasing both the groupâs duelling six-string pyrotechnics and topical takes on current events. At the ti
Richard Hell only made two albums in his brief recording career, 1977’s confrontational landmark
Blank Generation and 1982’s
Destiny Street. In the informative and entertaining new liner notes for
Destiny Street Complete, Hell describes the final mix of this less-successful sequel as a “morass of trebly multi-guitar blare.”
Today, he’s seized the opportunity for a do-over, and then some. The two-disc
Destiny Street Complete features four different takes on the album: the original version, demos from 1978 to 1980, a stripped-down edition from 2009 and a contemporary remix. If that sounds like overkill, it turns out to be a fascinating exercise. Hell’s reservations about the sound of the original release aside, the various incarnations of
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Destiny Street must have seemed like a dead end to Richard Hell & The Voidoids in 1982. Unsatisfied with the art punk originators’ second and final album, perhaps troubled by its rather thin, muffled sound or its flailing chaos, Hell wanted desperately to remix the wild and woolly successor to 1977’s seminal
Blank Generation debut. Unfortunately, the original 24-track masters went missing, preventing Hell from performing the necessary operation.
As luck would have it, in the early 2000s, Hell stumbled upon a cassette from 1981 with all the LP’s rhythm tacks, which allowed him to install thrilling new guitar forays and urgent vocals in 2009’s