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"LC" is a masterpiece. I say it without fear, one of the best albums, one of the most atypical records of the early 80s. Martin Hannett grasped the genius of this boy who didn’t play the guitar, painted melancholic oil sketches born of his solitude. Another side of a more violent Jan Curtis. Paintings in melancholic notes, solitude. A genius who caressed the strings of a guitar with the same shyness with which he caressed a girl's skin.
This is also post-punk, introverted, closed within the soul of one of the best guitarists around, loved by Brian Eno. With few notes, he enters the heart, makes you fall in love with his minimal notes disguised by a simple pedalboard, paints landscapes, a melancholic voice mixed with emotions and chemistry.
Jan Curtis appears between the frames of his watercolors, introverted notes, a guitar very distant in sound but two hearts very close between the introverted notes of opposite colors.
Souls in the storm, different endings, different life's coincidences.
Music born from the same discomfort. You may take me for a visionary in associating these figures, but their sensitivities, though diverse as night and day, are born from the same heart and few have understood it, just the greats of the Factory.
In my confusion, I continue to think that "LC" is a monument of the 80s.
Tracklist Lyrics Samples and Videos
06 Never Known (06:47)
I cry in my sleep
Sometimes you stay
Sometimes you stay
You never know why
Please say my name
Don't turn away
[chorus]
The pain is black
The pain is bright
The pain is black
The pain is bright
The pain is bright
Then I awake
And in the half light
Watching my movements
Through half closed eyes
You're touching me
As a priest loves pornography
We played beneath the patterns[?]
Don't turn away
[chorus]
Kissed by the years
Caresses of time
Marking the lines
The lines of expression
The patterns of place
The patterns of youth
The patterns of love
Don't turn away
Say my name
Say my name
[chorus)
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