THE POP GROUP – Y LP – Nr MINT/EXC+ UK ORIG POST PUNK DUB ELECTRONICA

The Pop Group – Y
(Radar Records  1979  RAD20)
Matrix No’s: A3/B3 – UK Pressing

Vinyl in Nr MINT/Excellent+ condition
(there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don’t affect the sound quality apart from some light pops/crackles)

Sleeve in Very Good+ condition
– some wear to edges/corners, sticker tear in top right corner & some ringwear top & bottom
No Poster

The Pop Group are an English band formed in Bristol in 1977 by vocalist Mark Stewart, guitarist John Waddington, bassist Simon Underwood, guitarist/saxophonist Gareth Sager, and drummer Bruce Smith. Their work in the late 1970s crossed diverse musical influences including funk, free jazz and dub with radical politics and the avant-garde, helping to pioneer post-punk music.

The group released two albums, Y (1979) and For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder? (1980), and the acclaimed singles “She Is Beyond Good and Evil” (1979) and “We Are All Prostitutes” (1979), before breaking up in 1981. Its members would go on to work on a variety of subsequent projects, including New Age Steppers and Rip Rig + Panic. In 2010, the band reunited, touring and releasing new material.

Y is the debut studio album of English post-punk band The Pop Group. The album was produced by dub musician Dennis “Blackbeard” Bovell at Ridge Farm Studios in Surrey, and was released on 20 April 1979 through Radar Records. It was reissued in 1996 by Radar, 2007 by Rhino/Radar (each with 1-2 bonus tracks from the “She Is Beyond Good and Evil” single), and in 2019 by Mute Records, including deluxe LP/12″ and CD editions with bonus outtakes and live albums, to mark its 40th anniversary.

Y initially received mixed critical reviews but has since received acclaim. Pitchfork ranked it at number 35 on its list of The Top 100 Albums of the 1970s.^[3] The Wire included it in its list of “The 100 Most Important Records Ever Made”.

Track listing

Original album

All tracks are written by The Pop Group.

Personnel