Pete Shelley - XL-1Label: Domino Reissued 6 6 2025, Originally released 1983 After Buzzcocks disbanded in 1981, frontman Pete Shelley teamed up with Martin Rushent, embracing the producers newly acquired synths and drum machines to rework his tracks, crafting a new blueprint for electronic pop music in the process. A production blueprint that would soon achieve massive mainstream success with another Rushent production; Dare by the Human League. Across both LPs, Shelley

the album is elevated by the shared vocal and songwriting duties of Newble and Munch

Emerging out of Amsterdam’s vibrant squat scene in 1979

unless there was a crisis

Stay Gone (Live)

Popol Vuh needs little introduction

Pharoah Sanders' third Impulse

2Kindsa Love

and alien spaceships

the second of the series

"Mother" and "Vera" from Pink Floyd The Wall

Drivin' Thru My Heart

Featured on the album are Adderley on alto sax along with Miles Davis on trumpet