This one grows on you, like muscle. You gotta earn it though.
Someone more attentive than I said...
Releasing an album seething with deformed musical ideas like Dub Housing in 1978 was to set yourself up for financial failure and virtual obscurity, of course. But in terms of sheer artistic ambition, this record blew just about anything else around out of the water. Punk was on the wane, as bands like Television and the Sex Pistols were falling apart. Rock music was at a significant creative impasse. Pere Ubu simply took conventional rock ideas and gave them a much- needed thrashing. They ripped familiar- sounding melodies and chord sequences to tiny bits and scattered the remains here, all over Dub Housing.
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