Riff Raff was a legendary rock magazine based in London in the late 80s and 90s. A genuine working class rock mag, written and edited by "the lads" in a drug-N-Jack-D-fuelled haze, it was just too R n’R for its own good, falling behind more trainspotterly publications like Q, Kerrang, and Mojo. This website is an archive and kind of shrine to the writing of its greatest "hacks," most of whom have faded in embarrassing middle age, with at least one of them having a Smule account.
Hailing from Sheffield, England, the Comsat Angels took their name from a story by the dystopian novelist J.G.Ballard. Part of the post-punk/new wave movement, they released nine albums between 1980 and 1995. This track Close Your Eyes is off their fifth studio album 7 Day Weekend released in 1985. The album title is a reference to the extremely high youth unemployment in post-industrial British cities like Sheffield in the 1980s. This album is now very hard to find and will set you back more than $200 on Amazon.
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