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- Date Released: June 3, 2003
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Punk, Alternative
- Label: Kill Rock Stars / Redeye
Punk with a pedigree charm.
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We Say...
As the sax-playing part of the two-woman frontline in X-Ray Spex, Lora Logic quickly became a name to drop during 1977. By the end of the year, though, she was out of the band and seemingly destined for obscurity. Happily, Logic realised there was more to punk than three-chord cliché and bounced back with her own band, Essential Logic. A one-off 45, “Aerosol Burns,” notable for its two-sax front-line, and Logic’s shrill, scat-style vocal peculiarities, confirmed that things were changing fast on the newly constituted ‘Independent’ scene. An album, Beat Rhythm News, followed a year later, refining the jazz-punk collision and wrapping it up in an odd but pleasingly treble-heavy production. It was offbeat, it was a mini-masterpiece, and it was largely ignored. Logic’s 1982 solo set, Pedigree Charm, was similarly idiosyncratic — and the best of both, together with single cuts and more recent (though admittedly less stunning) recordings are gathered here.
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They Say...
Consider Fanfare in the Garden another debt paid by Kill Rock Stars, the label that did another admirable thing two years prior with their reissue of Kleenex/Liliput. Just as crucial as that release, if not more so, Fanfare in the Garden takes its own place as an unassailable piece of post-punk history. If there's any group that exemplified the biting lyrics/fun sounds combination that several post-punk bands made their stock-in-trade, it's Essential Logic, a band centered around ex-X-Ray Spex saxophonist Lora Logic. Logic and her bandmates whipped up an alarming squall, made all the more unique by the leader's sax squonks and equally frantic vocals, which are prone to wild shifts of pitch and tone -- from chirps to yelps, from swoops to flutters -- that regularly find ways to contort traditional pronunciations. Logic's phonetic spelling of "aerosol burns," for instance, would look something like "ayyr-O-sawl burr-URNZ." Like a lot of their peers -- early Scritti Politti, the Pop Group, the Slits, Liliput, the Raincoats -- they sound incredibly tight one moment and then sound as if they're quickly marching toward the brink of unraveling. Nearly every song is a trebly buzz filled with jerky rhythms and dissonant screeches -- qualities bred by an exhilarating form of feral oomph. With all that said, Fanfare in the Garden is far from thorough and picks some questionable material for inclusion. While the bulk of the band's lone album, two EPs, and several singles are provided, this was the perfect chance to put the entirety of those releases back into circulation. And though some of Logic's early solo material is welcomed -- particularly the relatively tame but delightful 1981 single "Wonderful Offer" -- much of the space on the second disc is occupied by inferior, albeit decent, late-'90s recordings. Regardless, the compilation is unskippable.
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| 01. |  |
Aerosol Burns |
2:02 |
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| 02. | |
Quality Crayon Wax O.K. |
3:14 |
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| 03. | |
The Order Form |
5:57 |
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| 04. | |
Shabby Abbott |
3:47 |
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| 05. | |
Wake Up |
3:05 |
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| 06. | |
Albert |
4:59 |
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| 07. | |
World Friction |
3:33 |
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| 08. | |
Collecting Dust |
5:00 |
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| 09. | |
Popcorn Boy |
3:04 |
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| 10. | |
Music Is A better Noise |
4:01 |
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| 11. | |
Tame The Neighbors |
3:00 |
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| 12. | |
Moontown |
3:59 |
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| 13. | |
Fanfare In The Garden |
3:07 |
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| 14. | |
Brute Fury |
3:56 |
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| 15. | |
Rat Alley |
3:38 |
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| 16. | |
Martian Man |
4:23 |
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| 17. | |
Pedigree Charm |
4:11 |
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| 18. | |
Crystal Gazing |
4:57 |
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18 Total Tracks, 69:53 Total Length
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| 01. | |
Wonderful Offer |
3:07 |
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| 02. | |
Hiss And Shake |
5:19 |
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| 03. | |
Horrible Party |
3:53 |
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| 04. | |
On The Internet |
3:29 |
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| 05. | |
Barbie Be Happy |
3:45 |
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| 06. | |
No More Fiction |
3:04 |
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| 07. | |
Not Me |
4:40 |
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| 08. | |
Under The Great City |
4:50 |
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| 09. | |
Love Eternal |
4:49 |
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| 10. | |
The Beautiful & The Damned |
4:41 |
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| 11. | |
Marika |
3:38 |
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| 12. | |
Soul |
4:02 |
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| 13. | |
Stay High |
6:02 |
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| 14. | |
Stereo |
3:33 |
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| 15. | |
Born In Flames |
3:34 |
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| 16. | |
Do You Believe In Christmas? |
3:28 |
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| 17. | |
Essential Logic |
4:03 |
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17 Total Tracks, 69:57 Total Length
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Credits
- Essential Logic - Main Performer // Lora Logic - Saxophone // Lora Logic - Vocals // Lora Logic - Xylophone // Mayo Thompson - ? // Gina Birch - ? // David Farren - Percussion // David Farren - Vocals // David Farren - Double Bass // Kim Gordon - Artwork // Charles Hayward - Drums // Phil Legg - Guitar // Eddie Stevens - Keyboards // Rich-Tea - Drums // Richard Tee - Drums // Mark Turner - Bass // Mark Turner - Bass // Gary Valentine - Guitar // Gary Valentine - Percussion // Gary Valentine - Vocals // John Oliver - Bass // Greil Marcus - Liner Notes // Erin Donovan - Project Coordinator // Stephen Lewis III - Engineer // Sarasvati - Piano // Jason Gross - Project Coordinator // William Bennett - Guitar // Nick Pretzel - Vocals // Roy Tee - Photography // Stuart Action - Guitar
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