“The first thing to be said about the Raincoats is that they are the most appropriately named London band in the history of pop music. The second is that their music has moved from emotional manifestations of situations and events to statements of emotional positions taken on situations and events–and that the music here, recorded at the Kitchen in New York City in December, 1982, is a result of the latter approach. In other words, these are performances of songs. As such they can speak for themselves, but the Raincoats did not always ‘perform songs,’ and before they are subsumed into rock history–the band may well be gone by the end of 1983–or marked off as a half-page in one more new-women-in-rock book, it might be worth noting what they did instead. ...”
YouTube: Only loved at night, The Kitchen Tapes: 12 - Puberty Song 13 - No Side To Fall In 14 - Honey Mad Woman
2015 July: Odyshape (1981), 2017 January: The Raincoats (1979)
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