Tristan Honsinger / Steve Beresford / Toshinori Kondo / David Toop – Imitation of Life [USED LP] Post-Punk / Alt. Rock as its frayed and smeared

as its frayed and smeared swells of warm synth tones feel teasingly just out of focus

calling up Ockegham or Linda Caitlin Smith in its elegiac slow motion arcs

It was then that the "Ciccone Youth" project began to take shape

"Conceived of as a tribute to the late Fushitsusha bassist Yasushi Ozawa

layering ephemeral traces of Mark E Smith

Tristan Honsinger / Steve Beresford / Toshinori Kondo / David Toop – Imitation of Life [USED LP] Post-Punk / Alt. Rock as its frayed and smearedfour total nutbags playing different silly ditties at the same time for four minutes, inexplicably released on the pop group's vanity label. genius glee, daft joy & endless grinnage. Y Records, 1981