Pere Ubu – The Modern Dance

Recorded, produced, and finished in just two weeks, The Modern Dance by Cleveland-based band Pere Ubu is a pioneering post-punk classic that “pushed music into the 80’s” alongside contemporaries Wire, Television, and Devo. Pere Ubu brought disciplined, avant-garde and experimental sensibilities into punk music with effects, tape manipulation, and non-traditional methods of playing. Singer David Thomas once told The Guardian, “the bass player is actually the band’s guitarist, the guitarist is the bassist, the synthesizer is the vocal and I’m the horn section…”

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