B-Movie - Remembrance Days

A handy collection of the band's earliest efforts, ranging from extremely early compilation appearances to various EPs, Remembrance Days is certainly a fans-only experience. That said, at worst it's still enjoyably derivative post-punk (certainly the first couple of cuts have a major Joy Division/Cure jones going in a slightly more pop vein) and at best it's sparkling. Admittedly, maybe the borrowing went both ways -- while it doesn't sound similar at all, the fact that the band had a song called "Drowning Man" a year before a similarly titled cut turned up on The Cure's Faith is an amusing note of history. Read More