Name: Logically Yours
Brand: Essential Logic

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Bonus disc: No

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HAS001LP

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Black

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With 20 Page Booklet.

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-11-25

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5055869548618

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Black LPx5

Artist

Essential Logic

Genre GB

New Wave / Post Punk

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Hiss and Shake Records    

Essential Logic is an English post-punk band that was formed in 1978 by saxophonist Lora Logic, who had previously been a member of X-Ray Spex. The original lineup included Lora on vocals, Phil Legg on guitar and vocals, William Bennett on guitar, Mark Turner on bass guitar, Rich Tea on drums, and Dave Wright on saxophone. Later, Jon Oliver or Ben Annesley replaced Mark Turner on bass. After splitting in 1981, the band reunited in 2001.
With their unique blend of post-punk sound and Lora's distinctive saxophone playing, Essential Logic quickly gained attention in the music scene. Their energetic performances and thought-provoking lyrics captivated audiences across the UK.
Although their time together was relatively short-lived initially, Essential Logic left a lasting impact with their influential music. Fans eagerly welcomed their reunion in 2001 and continue to appreciate the band's contribution to the post-punk genre.

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Box Sets

Hiss and Shake Records release Logically Yours – a limited edition, 5 x LP boxset of 50 essential recordings from seminal post-punk icon Lora Logic including 2 classic Essential Logic albums, early single releases, EPs, B-sides, rarities, vinyl exclusives and first new Essential Logic studio album in 43 years!

Includes the classic Rough Trade Records releases Beat Rhythm News (Waddle Ya Play?) and Pedigree Charm and 2 retrospective compilations of early single releases, EPs, B-sides, rarities and vinyl exclusives Aerosol Burns and Other Misdemeanours and No More Fiction and new studio album ‘Land of Kali’ (first in 43 years) and 20 page booklet with introduction from Celeste Bell and Lora Logic Q+A.

Susan Murphy, aka Lora Logic was one of the most distinctive talents from the post-punk era known for her intoxicating, rough-around-the-edges, yet exhilarating sax playing and haywire vocal style. Her offbeat, occasionally arresting lyrics tackled alienation, sexism, poverty and urban isolation, and with a complete disregard for convention, she carved her own path not only in her short-lived music career but also personal life.

She was still in her teens when she answered an ad in Melody Maker “Looking for young punks,” and in 1976, with her friend Marion Elliot (aka Poly Styrene), she formed the punk band X-Ray Spex and acquired the pseudonym, Lora Logic. The duo soon achieved notoriety with the irresistible feminist protest single, ‘Oh Bondage Up Yours’ (1977) – Logic arguably stealing the show with her thrilling punk sax. “X-Ray Spex was my first band, I happened to be accepted, It happened to work, I happened to get famous overnight. I’d been playing sax in a cupboard in my room; I thought I better do something.” However, just prior to recording Germ Free Adolescents (1978), X-Ray Spex's debut album, she found herself unexpectedly ousted from the band. With abundant enthusiasm and encouragement from Geoff Travis, founding director of Rough Trade Records, she went on to form Essential Logic, creating some of the most liberating and exciting music of the early post-punk era, not only as Essential Logic, but also as a solo artist.

Hiss and Shake Records are pleased to present a limited edition boxset of 50 essential recordings from the irresistibly engaging Lora Logic archive, allowing for a new generation to become aware of her incredible creative output. Across 5 LPs, ‘Logically Yours’ includes in their entirety, the classic Rough Trade Records releases Beat Rhythm News (Waddle Ya Play?) (1979) – Essential Logic’s sole studio album, and Lora’s solo album, Pedigree Charm (1982) – her last studio album before turning her back on the music business, sad and disillusioned and fighting drug addiction, which saw her turn to a Hare Krishna lifestyle, alongside Poly Styrene, embracing a fresh new chapter.

This totally absorbing and definitive collection also includes two retrospective compilations; Essential Logic – ‘Aerosol Burns and Other Misdemeanours, which comprises early single releases, B-sides and oddities including the gloriously chaotic ‘Aerosol Burns’, the essential punk/disco ‘Music Is A Better Noise’, and ‘Fanfare In the Garden’, showcasing Lora at her most pop. In addition, Essential Logic – ‘No More Fiction; contains 10 vinyl exclusives, including ‘Do You Believe in Christmas?’, recorded with the Krishna Kids Choir in 1985, alongside tracks recorded circa 1997, with Martin Muscatt, Dave Farren (Bad Manners) and Gary Valentine (Blondie), forming the basis of what would have been Essential Logic’s third studio album, ‘No More Fiction’.

Having recently returned to the studio refreshed and rejuvenated, Logically Yours also includes The Land of Kali (co-produced by Youth), the first new Essential Logic studio album in 43 years, and features the new single ‘Prayer for Peace’, a re-imagining of the X-Ray Spex track from the tragically overlooked album, Conscious Consumer (1995) on which Lora also played sax. “Poly Styrene and I were living in a Krishna community in Worcestershire in the early 80s. We came together for the first time musically after X-Ray Spex to record the original version of this song. In 2019, I decided to record my own take as a tribute to the special times we shared. I hope Poly likes this new version too.” Further tracks penned for release from the album include the dystopian, lockdown-inspired ‘Alien Boys’ and ‘Sky Rocket’, written with daughter Malini, about the fairground of life.

Despite her short-lived career in the music business, Lora still managed to perform and appear on releases with many artists including US experimental rock band Red Crayola between 1978 and 1981, and also appeared on recordings by The Stranglers, The Raincoats, Kollaa Kestää, Dennis Bovell, Swell Maps and later, Boy George. Undoubtedly an iconic figure of the UK post-punk scene, Lora Logic’s boldness, adventurousness and sense of fun can be seen as an influence on numerous female artists today including Karen O from Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Peaches and St. Vincent among others.