C.I.A DEBUTANTE - Music For Small Rooms 12" shoegaze To some extent

To some extent

accompanied by a lazy rhythm and Steve Pike’s throaty shout-growl

has quietly painted us a beatific masterpiece that veers from the whimsical to the wigged out

This is still music steeped in American roots styles - country

As he put it in a 1983 interview: "I tried to listen to the noise in my head and invent some junkyard orchestral deviation—a mutant apparatus to drive this noise into a wreck collection

C.I.A DEBUTANTE - Music For Small Rooms 12" shoegaze To some extentLimited edition of 200 copies. Highly recommended. "Music For Small Rooms provides more paranoid and blown out cold war industrial dub avantness. Comparisons to early Suicide and Cabaret Voltaire are unavoidable, but then why shouldn't they be? That's two perfectly fantastic reference points for anyone to be drawing on, and CIA Debutante appear particularly adept at it, half wreckers of civilisation, half arch critics of a world gone fucked. Paranoia