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Mission of Burma |
| Signals, Calls And Marches - The Definitive Editions I |
| Matador | 2008 | Reissue |
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What first drew me to Mission of Burma 20 years ago – and ultimately, what has kept me interested in their sphere of influence is their seemingly limitless capacity to convey urgency. The music emanating from the Boston quartet was, from its nexus in the early 1980s, driven, crucial, and even a generation of imitators hasn’t diminished what has been a hallmark.
Rarely, if ever, has one standard record been so utterly packed with genre definition. Originally released with six tracks, at least four burst with iconoclastic, anthem rousing – everything that the early 1980’s “first wave” represented, and would go on to be the heartbeat of an entire movement of music. On Signals, Calls and Marches the neophyte indie-rockers sounded like an entity ready to brawl any waiting demon. The sound was lean, carved out in peculiar time, few if any missteps along the way. On this (and Rykodisc’s 1997 effort) re-releases, the 7” single versions of “Academy Fight Song/Max Ernst” is included; this is as an apt bookend, perhaps creating a contained document of time and place.
These two songs are themselves a real watershed in the ascension of MOB, cleanly free of their Brit-rock influences -- coming squarely in the heart of the movement they sought to create.
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| Erick Mertz |
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