Eyeless In Gaza Original Albums Boxset CD

Four CD set. Originally signed to Cherry Red in 1981, Eyeless in Gaza moved very quickly through four albums of skewed free-pop explorations to become the intriguing, uncomfortable cousin of the brash new wave sound finding it's way into the mainstream at the time. Picture a place where scratchy guitars, synthesizers, primitive rhythms, found sounds, technical experimentation and neo-noise come together to provide a bed for the poetic, exploratory lyrics of Martyn Bates. Oblique, anxious, difficult in places and beautifully detached, their sound captured perfectly the beauty to be found if one cared to rummage through the rubble of a Britain in the midst of industrial collapse. Produced with the approval and involvement of the band, and spread across four CDs presented in a hard clamshell case, this set captures Eyeless In Gaza's first four albums, along with a band compiled set of non-album essentials and oddities and a sleeve note by Martyn Bates.

1. Seven Years 2. Fixation 3. Looking Daggers 4. From a to B 5. Clear Cut Apparently 6. Speech Rapid Fire 7. John of Patmos 8. Knives Replace Air 9. Faceless 10. In Your Painting 11. A Keepsake 12. Whitewash 13. No Noise 14. Sixth Sense 15. Point You 16. Voice from the Tracks 17. Scale Amiss 18. The Decoration 19. Continual 20. Soul on Thin Ice 21. Rose Petal Knot 22. Skeletal Framework 23. See Red 24. Half-Light 25. Every Which Way 26. The Eyes of Beautiful Losers 27. Still Air 28. Out from the Day-To-Day 29. True Colour 30. Keynote Inertia 31. Transience Blues 32. Ill Wind Blows 33. One By One 34. Picture the Day 35. Dreaming at Rain 36. Two 37. Veil Like Calm 38. Throw a Shadow 39. Pencil Sketch 40. At Arms Length 41. Lights of April 42. Before You Go 43. Tall and White Nettles 44. Warm Breath, Soft and Slow 45. Blue Distance 46. Sheer Cliffs 47. Falling Leaf/Fading Flower: Goodbye to Summer 48. Lies of Love 49. To Ellen 50. Pale Saints 51. Letters to She 52. Light Sliding 53. Big Clipper Ship 54. Scent on Evening Air 55. Drumming the Beating Heart 56. You Frighten 57. Through Eastfields 58. Three Kittens 59. Jane, Dancing 60. Invisibility 61. The Feeling's Mutual 62. Everpresent 63. Dusky Ruth 64. Others 65. China Blue Vision 66. Kodak Ghosts Run Amok 67. Plague of Years 68. Taking Steps 69. Avenue with Trees