Name: Exquisite
Brand: The Mekons

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

GBLP118

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Black

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Rough Trade Exclusive: No

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-01-14

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

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Standard:20

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4030433611814

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

The Mekons

Genre GB

New Wave / Post Punk

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Glitterbeat

Glitterbeat is an independent music label specializing in vibrant global sounds from Africa and beyond. Established in 2012 as a subsidiary of Glitterhouse Records, it became independent in 2014. With a commitment to both cultural traditions and contemporary expression, Glitterbeat represents artists such as Aziza Brahim, Tamikrest, Noura Mint Seymali, Bassekou Kouyate, Bixiga 70, Sacri Cuori, Samba Toure, Fofoulah, Dirtmusic, Damir Imamovič, MAKU Soundsystem, Altin Gün and Gaye Su Akyol.
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The Mekons are a British rock band that formed in 1977 in Leeds, West Yorkshire. Originally inspired by the villainous Venusian from the British comic strip Dan Dare, they adopted their name as a tribute. In the mid-1980s, The Mekons transitioned their style to folk and folk rock.

With a career spanning several decades, The Mekons have become an influential force in the music industry. Their unique blend of rock and folk elements has garnered them a dedicated following worldwide. 

Similar artists to The Mekons include The Soft Boys, The Fall, Tom Verlaine, Wire, Young Marble Giants, Swell Maps, Pylon, The Feelies, Mission Of Burma, Josef K, Television,Wyre,Plyon ,The Raincoats,Au Pairs,Pil,Magazine ,The Dream Syndicate,Gang Of Four,and The Modern Lovers.

Hunkered down and unable to record together, in 2020 the Mekons created a glorious digital chain letter of an album. Exquisite is a sprawling manifesto of connection and defiance that deftly slides through fiddle tunes, digi-dub, fireside ballads and urgent rock &amp; roll. And that’s just side A.

The original recording plan was to have been the whole-band-in-a-room session in Valencia, Spain. When the pandemic rendered that impossible the process took a sharp swerve. The album credits describe it this way: "Exquisite was recorded in lockdown on mobile phones, broken cassette recorders, clay tablets &amp; other ancient technologies in Aptos, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York &amp; Devon. "

This legendary group from Leeds, have written contemporary music history for the last 40 years as radical innovators of both first generation punk and insurgent roots music, and Exquisite is another powerful vector of that legacy.

Exquisite

Music GB