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Anthony Moore - Flying Doesn't Help
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40-plus
years
since
its
original
release,
the
pop-punk-new
wave
inventions
of
Anthony
Moore’s
‘Flying
Doesn’t
Help’
are
freshly
remastered,
blasting
the
sparkling,
angular
sounds
into
today
with
perfect
vitality.
After
spending
the
early
years
of
the
1970s
making
experimental
music
first
as
a
solo
artist,
then
with
Slapp
Happy
and
Henry
Cow,
1976’s
‘OUT’
sessions
had
reinvigorated
Anthony’s
youthful
love
of
the
naive
pop
melodies
of
pop
radio,
the
undeniable
excitement
of
songs.
While
‘OUT’
ultimately
went
unreleased
at
the
time,
the
iconoclasm
clouding
the
late
’70s
air
was
addictive
and
transformative
for
Anthony.
England
seemed
to
be
roiled
as
violently
as
it
had
been
in
counter-cultural
days
a
decade
earlier;
the
UK
pop
charts
breathlessly
reflected
the
changing
spectrum
with
equal
parts
aging
hippie
and
prog
delicacies
alongside
new
ascendant
sounds:
rough-hewn
pub
and
punk
rock,
plus
dub
reggae
and
disco
and
ska
and
Stiff
and
Krautrock.
This
proved
to
be
an
ideal
environment
for
Anthony
to
make
records
by
exploring,
as
he
puts
it,
the
“deep
connection
between
minimalism,
repetition,
working
with
tape
and
celluloid
and
forming
the
modules
of
a
three-minute
pop
song.”
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