Another Music in a Different Kitchen by The Buzzcocks

Another Music in a Different Kitchen, the Buzzcocks' debut album, came tearing out of United Artists in March 1978, and it's the sound of a Bolton punk band discovering it had a pop heart and no intention of hiding it. Howard Devoto had walked, bassist Garth Smith had been shown the door, and guitarist Pete Shelley stepped up to the mic, his reedy, wounded voice riding over the scrape of Steve Diggle's guitar, Steve Garvey's bass and John Maher's hammering drums. Martin Rushent produced, and he keeps it lean, bright and fast.

The songs come at you like shrapnel: buzzsaw chords, melodies you can whistle, all of it at breakneck speed. "I Don't Mind" was the single, scraping to 55 in the UK that May, and "Moving Away from the Pulsebeat" stretches out into a pounding, hypnotic groove that shows these boys could do more than sprint.

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