It is the album’s attention to detail and an artful execution that feels totally encompassing in its horrific imagery.
From Her To Eternity is merely another narrative constructed by Cave, and its importance lies in more than just his signature voice. On some level all musicians are telling stories, but Cave taps into something eldritch and vicious, spins it forth in his voice, trembling and yelping, chanting in bellows like a prophetic drunk. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – From Her to Eternity On Those Deep Buds, there are rough connections to Wire, Sonic Youth and The Ex (with whom some members would later collaborate), though on the trumpet blaring anthem “Blessed Are the Follies,” the sinister progression of “Volkswagen” or the politically-charged lullaby “Keep Your Laws/Off My Body,” the band strictly march to the beat of their own time-signature-shifting drummer. British anarchopunk/post-punk rabble rousers Dog Faced Hermans never seemed too concerned with what was in vogue, however, particularly since their far-left politics and chaotic approach to groove set them miles apart from the indie mainstream.
The dividing line between post-punk and post-punk revival is a blurry one, though the ‘90s weren’t a fertile period for much of either. While there’s a lot of material that inevitably ended up getting left behind, what’s here is an essential marathon listen for those looking to soak in the mutant disco and attractive darkness. It’s too rich a period to let be overshadowed. So while there are a handful of ’90s-era albums here, ultimately this is an album that spans from late ’70s to the late ’80s. It stops before Interpol’s Turn On the Bright Lights. We also ended up imposing a rule: There will be no post-punk revival albums on this list. And even some of the most iconic post-punk albums were made by artists that ultimately moved on to something else, such as R.E.M., U2 and New Order. That gets complicated when you consider the history, which continues on up to the present, with artists that continue to capture the progressive, dark and often sexy sensibility of the sound. With this list, Treble attempts to document 100 of the best albums that post-punk ever produced. Post-punk was punk’s moody, arty cousin, raised on Can and Fela Kuti rather than Chuck Berry, and concerned with the inevitable destruction of the Cold War. It’s no wonder that goth-rock was born of post-punk. Post-punk is emblematic of an era more than a specific style, though with the rise of bands such as Talking Heads, Joy Division, Public Image Limited and Pere Ubu in the late ’70s, common trends began to emerge within their music: pulsing basslines, expressionist abstraction, disco-adjacent rhythms and often an almost oppressive level of darkness. And stories like that poured out of various locales: Manchester, Athens, New York City, Glasgow and Cleveland. Formed after seeing The Sex Pistols live, the Manchester quartet took that raw energy and made it into a sound at once dark and muscular, streamlined and haunting in atmosphere, eclectic yet singular. Perhaps it’s best illustrated by one of the iconic bands of the post-punk era: Joy Division. At its simplest, post-punk is what punk evolved into-though even that timeline’s a little more complicated. Then came post-punk, and that’s a much more complicated story. First there was punk: A natural outgrowth of rock ‘n’ roll in its purest form-wild, untamed, fast, young, loud and snotty.