Pere Ubu Cloudland Spot Gloss Varnish Detail Sleeve Dreambend B3

Dreambend B3

Longtime fans

wistful "River Theme" are impressive in their own understated way

where we start awash in melancholy synths but end up hopeful for possibility

Pere Ubu Cloudland Spot Gloss Varnish Detail Sleeve Dreambend B3In a press handout that accompanied the original release of Pere Ubu's Cloudland, David Thomas quipped "We'd never been asked to write a pop record before. I guess it never occurred to anyone." Given the sonic Dadaism of much of Pere Ubu's work, what's most startling is not that it took so long for someone to suggest they make a pop record but that they were able to comply so successfully. Stephen Hague, who had previously worked with the Pet Shop