Parade Ground - "The Golden Years" LP - Dark Entries Records
READ the full review for The Golden Years, by Parade Ground, HERE
Parade Ground prove that if you think you know what was going on in the early ’80s, you might want to rethink that assertion based on the veritable boatloads of interesting material being reissued high and low by labels diverse as Wierd, Captured Tracks and sister label Dark Entries, Democratic Dancebeat, Downwards, Optimo, Forced Nostalgia and probably dozens of others (too much music and negative-no time for them all).
Check this segment of the full review, which you fan view by clicking the link above:
<Hearing a record like Parade Ground’s The Golden Years — a collection of singles and rarities — for the first time, decades after the music was released, feels like more of a celebration than a traditional listening experience. With proper commercial considerations long passed for the Brussels, Belgium, duo and a limited, vinyl-only pressing propping it up, for me it’s encouraging to know albums like Golden Years are being unearthed like ancient artifacts — hey, a few decades is like a few-thousand music years — first and foremost. So, tip of the cap.
When delving into the audio itself, the mood is lukewarm — as in not as frosty/bleak as many — and almost spiteful. Parade Ground specialized in synth-driven coldwave with an inherently German feel, post-punk through the lens of the usual suspect of the era (Joy Division), albeit with random instances of sparkle that fracture and frustrate the facade of canned beats and synth bloops.>
Truer words have never been spoken, if I do say so myself. And I do …
