Contortions - Buy LP 12-inches 1988's Playing With Fire

1988's Playing With Fire

" "Choc-Stock" and "Spectre Vs

deadpan drawl guides the listener through sci-fi innerscapes

' drummer Charles Hayward told one interviewer

Go To Town is a work of taut perfection

Contortions - Buy LP 12-inches 1988's Playing With FireSoon after their 1978 debut on the Brian Eno produced No New York, a compilation that defined the No Wave scene, James Chance's group Contortions had already evolved getting sharper, tighter and just plain faster. Despite the loss of keyboardist Adele Bertei and bassist Geoge Scott (who refused to sign a new contract demanded by Chance and his then partner, band manager Anya Phillips) Contortions were firing on all cylinders, and their first full