Saturday, September 27, 2014

Rarely Heard: A. R. Kane - Crazy Blue



Allmusic.com describes them best: "Arguably the most criminally under-recognized band of their era, the British duo A.R.Kane anticipated virtually all of the key musical breakthroughs of the 1990s a decade before the fact, with the roots of everything from shoegazing to trip-hop to ambient dub -- even those of post-rock -- lying in their dreamy, oceanic sound." I came upon them in 1988 by their first album 69, which pretty much blew my mind. Their subsequent albums "i" (1989) and New Clear Child (1994) received even more critical acclaim than their debut did, but even less audience.

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