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[sowhatifiliveinfukuoka]

The Pop Group

[musickickztoo]

Mark Stewart *August 10, 1960

[funkpunkandpunkfunk]

via History Is Made At Night blog

This lineup gotdamn

[radiophd]

the pop group -- blood money

[soundundvisionsblog]

Goodbye Mark Stewart

[mymelodic-chapel]

The Pop Group- Y (Post-Punk, Experimental Rock, Art Punk) Released: April 20, 1979 [Radar Records] Producer(s): Dennis Bovell, The Pop Group

[kuriousoranj]

Mark Stewart, 1983

©Kishi Yamamoto

[tonightto3ternity]

no screamo tonight, I am listening to The Pop Group rn!!!

[eye-you]

He’s the man of our dreams.

Rest in the aether, Mark Stewart.

[jgthirlwell]

Very sad to hear of the passing of Mark Stewart, singer of The Pop Group. I saw the Pop Group many times in their early days and the shows and records were nothing short of revolutionary.

[sowhatifiliveinfukuoka]

The Pop Group

[musickickztoo]

Mark Stewart † April 21, 2023

[funkpunkandpunkfunk]

The Pop Group

[dustedmagazine]

GEO — Out of Body (Erste Theke Tontraeger)

GEO jerks to life like a marionette, all angled knees and elbows cavorting in syncopation. The band, out of Netherlands’ Groningen, builds spiked architectures out of terse bass, antic guitar squiggles and block simple drumbeats. A singer of sorts, one Jorne Visser, scowls and stutters abstract poetry, wild-eyed but deadpan. The band shares a guitarist, Michiel Klein, with Lewsberg, but has none of the languid philosophizing or limpid VU-ish guitar of that band. He’s the chaos burning through these robot-funky grooves, scrabbling for purchase, yelping, shrieking, dragging pick over detuned strings. All is tight, irregular, paranoiac and off-kilter. It could collapse into a pile of sticks at any moment.   

“Big Fire” is a helluva ride here, careening up on two wheels on the corners, a Bog Shed jitter veering off into entropy. “Ah-ah-ah,” screeches Visser, as bass and drums execute madly rectilinear grooves, Fire Engine-esque riffs finishing with an antic flourish on woodblocks. “We are building…the invisible house…ay, ay,” declares Visser and then, abruptly, it’s over.

Or consider lurching, flailing “Sunglasses,” striding three steps forward, then shuffling back, a siren going off somewhere, danger, danger ahead. “The music sounds weird, the rhythm sounds fine,” stutters Visser, a statement of aesthetic if you ever heard one. Later, “So Many Ways” spasms giddily, a dead ringer for Maximum Joy, a wind-up version of the Pop Group, a throwback to the days when post-punk made us dance like possessed creatures, tangled in the stops and starts and bass-bumping fury; we fell down pretty often.

The point is that many try the post-punk skeleton-knocking dance macabre, but few nail it quite this powerfully. GEO is out of its mind and out of its body. It’ll take you there, too.  

Jennifer Kelly

[punk-chicken-radio]

ax trax of the week

the pop group - she is beyond good and evil

i hadn’t listened to this band in a long time. sorry it took mark stewart dying for me to pull it off the shelf 😥

-ax