CHROME Vinyl & CDs

Review: In celebration of the group's newest album, Blue Exposure, a sequel to their 1980 masterpiece Red Exposure, Chrome proudly present a special double album reissue of the latter, original project. Long regarded as not only one of the best albums of the band's stellar catalog but also one of the most groundbreaking musical achievements of the 80s, Chrome's debut album influenced a generation of electronic, post-rock and experimental artists, predicting and inspiring the many thought-to-be-inventors of the sound(s), such as Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson. This version includes an entire bonus LP of rare "lost tracks", recorded in the same year as the originals. By far the most arresting cuts include 'Eyes On Mars' and 'Static Gravity', which effortlessly flaunt the band's melding of seemingly contradictory poles: the double-time groove of post-punk and the halfstep pace of dub, echoing the dizzying variety of influences that went into this electric, feline, crepulscular album.