Suburban Lawns - Suburban LawnsIf your brain has a shortlist of bands that instantly evoke New Wave, Suburban Lawns deserve a slot right next to the likes of Devo, Talking Heads and the B 52s. After putting out two singles on their own Suburban Industrial imprint, the Lawns signed to I. R. S. Records and released their debut LP in 1981. While the band gained cult status thanks in part to a Jonathan Demme produced music video which aired on Saturday Night Live, their self titled

there we were: five guys in a cellar flat on Earl’s Court

' later in 2016

amongst themselves and at their own pace

” “There are songs that have no room

hitting hard as hell once more

Spacemen 3

Available on black vinyl and as a limited Dinked Edition

A1  Boy Meets Girl So What A2 Governing Takes Brains A3  An Address To The Better Off  A4  Hands Off Or Die A5  What Our Boys Are Fighting For B1  Keep An Open Mind Or Else B2  We Are All Born Creeps B3  The Home Secretary Briefs The Forces Of Law And Order B4  I’m Not A Patriot But B5  Throw Him Out He’s Breaking My Heart

followed by the moody "Being Alone"

previously undiscovered gems by the likes of Matthew Bones (the Kinks-like parlour piece Two Sugars)

The album - originally recorded on one afternoon in 1964 but not released until four years later when a copy of the almost-lost master was rediscovered - is unique in that it features just an acoustic guitar and two bass players

Plowing Into the Field of Love (2014) and Beyondless (2018) saw a softening of the band’s hardest edges and the arrival of a certain world-weary vaudeville in the Iceage sound