Album artwork for The Crackdown by Cabaret Voltaire

The Crackdown is the fourth studio album by Cabaret Voltaire. It was released in 1983. This is Cabaret Voltaire's first album after Chris Watson's departure. One of Cabaret Voltaire's strongest albums, The Crackdown features the band working a number of menacing electronic textures into a basic dance / funk rhythm; the result is one of their most distinctive, challenging records.

The album fuses their earlier experimental records with the electronic dance-funk sound that would become more prominent within their subsequent releases and includes the magnificent haunting single ‘Just Fascination’. The significance of The Crackdown has grown over the decades, also enlisted in NME’s best albums of 1983.

Cabaret Voltaire

The Crackdown

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Cabaret Voltaire

The Crackdown

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Album artwork for The Crackdown by Cabaret Voltaire
LP +

£27.99

Grey
Includes download code
Released 10/01/2024Catalogue Number

LCABS22

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Album artwork for The Crackdown by Cabaret Voltaire
CD

£10.99

Released 04/01/2019Catalogue Number

CABS22CD

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The Crackdown is the fourth studio album by Cabaret Voltaire. It was released in 1983. This is Cabaret Voltaire's first album after Chris Watson's departure. One of Cabaret Voltaire's strongest albums, The Crackdown features the band working a number of menacing electronic textures into a basic dance / funk rhythm; the result is one of their most distinctive, challenging records.

The album fuses their earlier experimental records with the electronic dance-funk sound that would become more prominent within their subsequent releases and includes the magnificent haunting single ‘Just Fascination’. The significance of The Crackdown has grown over the decades, also enlisted in NME’s best albums of 1983.