Tag Archives: The Wolfgang Press

Formed following the dissolution from the Versions, loud post-punks Rema-Rema had been a short-lived 4AD quintet that contains Mick Allen (bass/vocals), Marco Pirroni (guitar), Tag Cox (keyboards), Gary Asquith (guitar/vocals), and Dorothy Utmost Prior (drums). The Steering wheel in the Roses EP, the band’s lone launch, featured one part of …

London After Midnight may be the brainchild of vocalist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Sean Brennan, whose function — described by Brennan as “dark-rock music” — incorporates components of goth rock and roll, glam rock and roll, digital, industrial, and other sounds. Brennan was created and elevated in New Britain, and in …

Alabama 3 was among the oddest music clothes to arise from past due-’90s London, but also probably one of the most initial. The band’s roots are shrouded in metropolitan misconception — the music group likes to declare that the three primary members fulfilled in rehab, while their Southern accents possess …

Enigmatic, moody, and difficult, Britain’s Wolfgang Press were probably one of the most mercurial talents from the post-punk era, restlessly shifting from gothic noise to dark balladry to eccentric funk; paradoxically, the group was also the 4AD label’s longest tenured designer — actually their stylish recording packages were all of …

The summery hooks and warm lyrics of “I Melt together with you” gave listeners the impression that Contemporary British were an upbeat pop act, however the single, first released in 1982, was actually an anomaly within the band’s early discography. Produced in Colchester, Britain in 1979, Contemporary English had been …

Early proponents of what just later on became the 4AD sound, Dif Juz concentrated about just that, missing a vocalist about almost all their recordings aside from a guest spot or two from the Cocteau Twins’ Liz Fraser. Originally created because the punk music group London Satisfaction by brothers Dave …

Among the legendary 4AD label’s earliest & most under-recognized serves, Colourbox were one of the primary artists beyond the world of hip-hop to rely heavily on sampling methods; eventually, their arty blue-eyed spirit — a fusion of far-ranging affects spanning from traditional R&B to dub to commercial — reached its …

Jeff Wilmott (drums and piano), Pete Moore (bass), Andrew Grey (electric guitar, keyboards), and David Steiner (vocals, keyboards) shaped the London, England-based post-punk music group In Camcorder in 1978. “Last Accomplishment”/”Die Laughing” as well as the IV Tracks EP, both released on 4AD in 1980, highlighted a jagged, generating audio …