Minimal Wave/Bitter Lake US Schallplatten & CDs

Review: It's not everyday anything by Portray Heads finds its way back to the surface with us mere mortals. The mythical Japanese electronic punks have managed to retain a serious cult following among fans of a sound that's like synth pop squaring up to EBM, despite most of their back catalogue being buried somewhere in the depths of the best possible drum machine hell you could ask to be sent to.

Dark, weird, and absolutely one of a kind, Veronica Vasicka's famously exploratory Minimal Wave imprint and Bitter Lake Recordings will be understandably confident fans will be all over this one. Tracks like 'Industrial Eye' offered blueprints for a classic electro sound that hadn't really been heard when it was first dropped, in the mid-1980s, with the tune before, 'Generation Storm', a prime example of the epic synth work and tangibly sinister vibes that seem to define everything here.