Genre : Proto-Punk / Psychedelic
Label : Norton Records
Origin : United States
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The Figures of Light formation - the now-duo had an initial onset with more members to its acumen before dissolving to "just" two elite level silence massacrers - have played their own variant of quasi-punk - proto-punk, as they call it - well before Sid Vicious and Johnny Rotten had a chance to produce their first collective successful nervous breakdowns worth bursting out in nostalgia about a week later. (If you are under exploitation, the rules of time are rearranged.)
The FOL formation offers a considerable body of work, given that they are in the business since 1742 - no, not really, it is the year of 1970 that bears the burden of having to contain not less of an apocalyptic constellation than to give full value space-time to the ruthless planetary machinations of Figures of Light. To these men, music is "just" a tool, a metaphor to reveal a school of thought represented in consequent fashion since the beginning days of the project. It is not hard to rebel if the government won't fuck you up for it. But, if you read the Wikipedia page of Figures of Light, it turns out that they pulled off quite ballsy moves to express their radical discontent towards how television handled/portrayed the Vietnam war, for example, and ran amok while there were good chances to be put down like a rabid dog via the system. Antiestablishmentarianists for life AND beyond.
As I have researched for an image to include with this article, I have found a review of the overall FOL experience with the following quote included from a lady called Miriam : "you guys haven't improved in 35 years". Given that the quoted review offers a quite extensive and thorough look on the real life connotations and direct precursors of this full fledged studio effort, I will do the following : I will give you my personal percepts on the disc, on the music of FOL, while urging you to check out the review that I have been just telling you about. From that particular body of fine text, you will learn how the members delivered 20 songs in 27 takes in a studio session stretching over no more than 48 hours, while gaining insight of other related points of relevance, too. Read on to know more about the record, and definitely read this review, because it holds extensive information on the duo, information that is better linked than repeated.
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