X-Ray Spex - Let's Submerge: The Anthology

Primary Artist
X-Ray Spex
Album Title
Let's Submerge: The Anthology
Release Date
September 12, 2006 
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Review by J. Scott McClintock
During their too-short recording career (1976-1979), seminal British punkers X-ray Spex put out only a handful of singles (literally -- there were but five) and released only one full-length album. How, then, can a record label be justified in releasing a 52-song anthology for a band whose total output barely warrants its own divider in a record shop binNULL Two words -- Poly Styrene. X-ray Spex's simultaneously squeaky and roaring frontwoman defiantly cut her own swath through the increasingly poseur-ridden early punk scene in London. Read More