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Named after a good ’60s jazz album by Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rip Rig + Stress answered the query: what goes on when avant-garde post-punks collide head-long having a pop/soul singer and perform a mutated type of jazz? A loosely knit assortment of ex-Pop Group people (Gareth Sager and Bruce Smith) …

Nevertheless one might describe their music, the Pop Group most definitely weren’t a pop group, even though they rose to popularity because the first wave of Uk punk had however to break, they weren’t actually punk possibly, through their aggressive fusion of funk, noise, dub, totally free jazz, proto-punk, post-beat …