"Pleasures & Wayward Distractions" Press Release

PRESS RELEASE OF THE YEAR (SO FAR)

From the voice of doom to the voice of dance.

From the despair and dire of Manchester's dark gloom, the grime and rhyme, to the rich neon world of New York, the rhythm and the riffs.

From an Ideal for Living to a a formula for success...

Enigmatic, tragic, vocal, silent.

Moody or thoughtful recluses.

Uncompromising, manipulative, misunderstood, messiahs, musicians.

Whatever.

One of the most impenetrable bands to have cast its shadow across the face of rock. From their spawning as Warsaw in the thrashing punk, the industrial intensity of Joy Division and the hypnotic electronic swirls of New Order. Ugly and beautiful, abrasive and sensitive, Romantics and Cynics.

Brian Edge traces the enigma from its early promise through the cult hysteria and the senseless tragedy of the suicide of Ian Curtis.

Blue Monday is one of the most successful indie singles ever made. Love Will Tear Us Apart and Atmosphere as two of the most haunting despairing love songs committed to vinyl.

An appraisal, an analysis, a picture, a defence, an appreciation. 

An attempt to enlighten in a world of self-propogated darkness.

A ceremony of unknown pleasures. Movement.

Or, your typewriter's really livin' on the edge, Brian old man A puerile piece of sensitive, socially aware, cold grey light of alphabetical diarrhoea. The book? It's about some pop group...

- Knotta Penman