Daft
A handful of the most pretentious artists in post-punk England also happened to be among the most talented. Keyboardist Ann Dudley, producer Trevor Horn, and his ZTT cohort Paul Morley (who made tea and thought up overblown song titles) were clearly onto something with influential sequencer and car-ignition-driven cut-ups like "Beat Box (Diversion One)" and "Close (to the Edit)." This collection of early Art of Noise material evokes a period when pop artists were crass enough to exploit their own hype and naive enough to believe they could still create art in the process. And, sometimes, they did.--Bill Forman