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Patrick Clarke , February 2nd, 2021 10:02 LICE speak to Patrick Clarke about their ambitious new album WASTELAND, a rebuke to the inadequacy of modern post-punk songwriting, and the inspiration of Italian modernism, Brian Catling and William S. Burroughs Photos by Rowan Allen LICE formed over a shared attraction towards extremity. At first, they found it in early post-punk music, bands like Bauhaus and The Birthday Party that were the logical next step from the respective alternative rock upbringings of guitarist Silas Dilkes, bassist Gareth Johnson and drummer Bruce Bardsley. The genre was completely new to frontman Alastair Shuttleworth, who had been raised on a diet of “standard issue canonical indie fare” as well a “fascination” with Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark. “Discovering that early post-punk music, it was an incredibly extreme and transgressive, dark, caustic musical language that felt very strange and alien,” he says on a Zoom call. You ....