Pere Ubu Cloudland Spot Gloss Varnish Detail Sleeve Dark Motor 9

Dark Motor 9

“Algo Azul

Whereas UNKNOWN PLEASURES' interplay of light and shadow was daubed in contrasting layers of chiaroscuro

where we start awash in melancholy synths but end up hopeful for possibility

Barbe went back to the master tapes and was able to remix the album to the robust sound that he intended it to be back in 1989

Pere Ubu Cloudland Spot Gloss Varnish Detail Sleeve Dark Motor 9In a press handout that accompanied the original release of Pere Ubu's Cloudland, David Thomas quipped "We'd never been asked to write a pop record before. I guess it never occurred to anyone." Given the sonic Dadaism of much of Pere Ubu's work, what's most startling is not that it took so long for someone to suggest they make a pop record but that they were able to comply so successfully. Stephen Hague, who had previously worked with the Pet Shop