Bizarre Unit

The dark glam throb of "Dancing" and the Ballardian sensuality of "Away From The Screaming Car" appeared on Bizarre Unit's one and only single, recorded in Walsall circa 1981. It's now a highly collectable item, but that's not where their story stops. Paul Nova has a stockpile of entirely unheard gear from that era Firstly, there's an unreleased 2nd single, the swaggering coldwave of "Lovers In Paris" and the Joy Division-esque "Frozen Wastelands Of Alaska". There's a "First Demo Session", dating to 1980 and featuring five remarkably accomplished and well dated cuts including the numbed eeriness of "The Image Of You" and the odd byzantine groove of "Factory Inmates" -a clear forerunner to Gary War. "Unreleased Recordings From 1982" shows another remarkable step forward, with cold drum machines, synths and pleading vocals strongly reminding of Soft Cell or Japan, while the final side of "First Rehearsals 1979 & 1980" takes us back to their skinnier, rawer roots, mixing scratchy guitar and emaciated synth instrumentals with funky sequencer experiments and surreal electro-blues bits. [SOURCE: BOOMKAT]