Pop Group- Y (Definitive Edition)Label: Mute Released 2019 Mute is happy to announce the release of the remastered version of The Pop Group's Y, to be released on CD and LP November 1. It was cut using half speed mastering at Abbey Road. y is the highly influential and innovative debut album by The Pop Group, released in 1979. In the same year The Pop Group released their single She is Beyond Good & Evil 3: 38. The Pop Group's y regularly appears in 'Greatest Album' lists such as #35

Transcendental Youth

City Boy Blues

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and the twangy catchiness of blues and indie rock

spanning album tracks

four years later the context is entirely different -- the band's fate as rock's (commercially unsuccessful) great post-NIRVANA hope is nearly sealed

the guitars are angular and spiky - punk

and liner notes inside a gatefold jacket

the resulting album is as storied and unique as the band itself

released in 1961 on Impulse

Showroom Dummies

Everything's Made Out Of Sand