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Pete Shelley - Homosapien (Vinyl 2LP) PRE-ORDER

Pete Shelley - Homosapien (Vinyl 2LP) PRE-ORDER

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Expected Release Date:  06 June 2025 - Pre-orders are usually shipped on or just before release day but can be subject to delay and alteration.

After Buzzcocks disbanded in 1981, frontman Pete Shelley teamed up with Martin Rushent, embracing the producer’s newly acquired synths and drum machines to rework his tracks, crafting a new blueprint for electronic pop music in the process. A production blueprint that would soon achieve massive mainstream success with another Rushent production; Dare by the Human League.

Across both LPs, Shelley combines his urgent songwriting with chugging synthesisers and electronic percussion creating records that straddle rock radio and London’s nascent club scene. These albums sound as fresh today as they did upon release, but the innovative nature of Homosapien and XL-1 has been overlooked. Overshadowed by the influence of Pete’s former band and by the Human League’s runaway hit, not helped by the BBC banning the ‘Homosapien’ single on homophobic grounds (though it became an electro LGBT anthem in gay dance clubs). Domino reissues both albums as standalone double LPs, housed in gatefold sleeves with new liner notes by Clinton Heylin.


"It is like a dialogue between me and myself. I put in the deep dark feelings and what I gain out of the music helps give me a release to keep me sane” - Pete Shelley, to Richard Cook, NME April 1983.


Tracklisting


Side A
1Homosapien
2Yesterday's Not Here
3I Generate A Feeling
4Keats' Song
5Qu'est-ce Que C'est Que Ça


Side B
1I Don't Know What It Is
2Guess I Must Have Been In Love With Myself
3Pusher Man
4Just One Of Those Affairs
5It's Hard Enough Knowing


Side C
1In Love With Somebody Else
2Witness The Change
3Maxine
4Love In Vain


Side D
1Homosapien (Elongated Dancepartydubmix)
2Witness the Change/I Don't Know What Love Is (Dub)

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