Tropical Stumble vinyl

While it's become fashionable to reissue obscure post-punk and wave recordings from the turn-of-the-80s, it would be unfair to accuse Stroom of bandwagon-jumping - after all, they've been serving up new editions of quirky, unheralded European records in this style for some time. Their latest must-have seven-inch brings together barely-known tracks from two Belgian bands who were active on the country's punk scene in the late '70s and early '80s. On the A-side you'll find "Tropical Stumble" by Organized Pleasure, a feverish fusion of doom-laden electronics, Joy Division guitars, skittish drums and multi-lingual vocals that never outstays its welcome. Side B boasts another rare cut from 1981, the low-slung, dub-influenced post-punk murkiness of Satin Wall's "Dans Les Profondeurs".