NO SONGS TOMORROW | DARKWAVE, ETHEREAL ROCK AND COLDWAVE 1981-1990, 4CD BOX SET Coming Soon!
- FEATURING THE CURE, DEAD CAN DANCE, CLAN OF XYMOX, COCTEAU TWINS, SOFT CELL, TONES ON TAIL, IN THE NURSERY, ATTRITION, IRON CURTAIN, ALIEN SEX FIEND, CRANES, KIRLIAN CAMERA, NEON AND MANY MORE.
- 4CD SET EXPLORING THE 1980s’ DARKWAVE/COLDWAVE SCENE THROUGHOUT THE UK, EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES
- A BROAD CHURCH TAKING IN ELECTRONICS, DARK AMBIENT, NEO-CLASSICAL NEW WAVE, GOTHIC SOUNDSCAPES AND COLD DREAM POP.
- CURATED BY THE TEAM WHO BROUGHT YOU ‘CHERRY STARS COLLIDE’, ‘SILHOUETTES AND STATUES’ AND ‘STILL IN A DREAM’.
- SLEEVENOTES COURTESY OF FRANK DESERTO.
As the post-punk dust began to settle, a particular strand of artist began applying a knowingly distant, colder aesthetic to their work. While much of the scene began to be dominated by bigger budget, commercially minded former punk and new wave acts, a darker undercurrent did survive, often more interesting, more dangerous and sexier than anything that could be heard on Top Of The Pops at the time. The first generation of the darkwave movement consisted of bands that were equally influenced by the fractured drama of Depeche Mode, Siouxsie & the Banshees and The Cure as they were by the art damaged experimentation of Cabaret Voltaire, Wire and Throbbing Gristle, always rich in Gothic spirt, societal displacement, urban isolation and sexual energy.
‘No Songs Tomorrow’ collects together the true progenitors and risk takers of this Venn diagram scene, each of whom set forth in uncharted territory in the post-punk minefield, expressing parts of themselves others dare not in the truest and darkest of fashions. From familiar names to underground gems and collectables, and painting with a broad international palette, this might be considered a companion piece to several of our previous offerings, ‘Silhouettes And Statues’, ‘Close to The Noise Floor’, ‘Still In A Dream’ and ‘Cherry Stars Collide’ among them. We recommend late night listening, either home alone or dripping with sweat on a rotting dancefloor.
DISC ONE 1 The Cure - The Funeral Party 2 Babel 17 - Come Into Hell and Murder Hate 3 Black Tape For A Blue Girl - Within These Walls (2023 Stereo Mix) 4 Days Of Sorrow - Wild World 5 Cocteau Twins - Blood Bitch 6 Lars Falk - See My Friend Fall 7 Rise And Fall Of A Decade - Nothing To Say, Easy To Answer 8 Dead Can Dance - Avatar 9 Executive Slacks - Say It Isn't So 10 In The Nursery - Lost Prayer 11 Psyche - The Crawler 12 Kas Product - Tina Town 13 Eleven Pond – Tear And Cinnamon 14 Requiem In White - A Prodigal Son |
DISC TWO 1 U.V. Pøp - No Songs Tomorrow (Album Version) 2 Soft Cell - Heat 3 Lowlife - From Side To Side 4 Parade Ground - Moans 5 Cranes - Focus Breathe 6 Lycia - From Foam 7 Sad Lovers And Giants - Return To Clocktower Lodge 8 Section 25 - Looking From A Hilltop 9 Fra Lippo Lippi - Now and Forever 10 The Essence - Only For You 11 Mittageisen - Automaten (Radio Edit) 12 Beautiful Pea Green Boat - The Screw 13 Autumnfair - Novy Mir 14 Minimal Compact - My Will 15 Cuddly Toys - Pierrot Lunaire (Malice Pt 2) |
DISC THREE 1 Clan Of Xymox - Louise (7'' Version) 2 Iron Curtain - The Condos 3 Neon - Dark Age (12'' Mix) 4 Die Form - Poupée Mécanique 5 Kirlian Camera - Blue Room 6 Danse Society - Danse/Move 7 SS-Say - Care 8 For Against - Amen Yves 9 Heavenly Bodies - Rains On Me 10 Invisible Limits - Demand For Supply 11 Xmal Deutschland - Sickle Moon 12 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Hand On Heart 13 Little Nemo - City Lights (Long Way) 14 Royal Family & The Poor - Discipline 15 Bushido - High Rise 16 Mankind's Audio Development - Craving |
DISC FOUR 1 Attrition - The Last Refuge 2 Two - Picture Frame 3 Soul - Love 4 Alien Sex Fiend - In And Out Of My Mind 5 Museum Of Devotion - Gauge Field 6 Malaria! - You You 7 No More - Suicide Commando 8 Twice A Man - Decay 9 Collection d'Arnell-Andréa - A L'Aurore Assassine 10 The Vyllies - Give Me A Name 11 Bel Canto - Dewy Fields 12 The Arms of Someone New - Every Seventh Wave 13 Single Gun Theory - Exorcise This Wasteland 14 Tones On Tail - Performance (7'' Version) 15 Pieter Nooten & Michael Brook - Clouds |