Pauline Murray & The Invisible Girls

£40 on Amazon for the vinyl version? Fuck that, mine's in the loft, yours for £35.


Anyway, after Penetration (Wiki them) split up, Pauline Murray did a couple of bits and bobs. This is the best.

From the Amazon review . . .

Pauline Murray emerged with Penetration in the white heat summer of Punk. After Penetration's demise Murray teamed up with Salford punk-poet John Cooper Clarke's occasional backing band The Invisible Girls and, guided by the production skills of Martin Hannet (who himself was one of the Invisible Girls), set about recording what, for me, is one of the finest pop albums to emerge from the post-punk era. This record sounds like one of the very best albums the Factory label never released (it originally appeared on the RSO label) - but with Hannet at the controls it was bound to have a Factory feel. But where it differs from the standard Factory fayre (if there is such a thing) it is that there is a definite pop sensibility running throughout the album. Dream Sequence, all breathy vocals and majestic keyboard swirls is like no song that Factory ever released but it still somehow manages to sound like a Factory single from start to finish - maybe its the production, doomy and dense but managing, within the tangled web, to allow breathing space. The catchiness of the mostly upbeat melodies never quite manages to let the listener escape the feeling of dread and foreboding - altogether an unsettling and strange experience. 

You'll also find the Peel Sessions here . . . 
and the Dream Sequence 10" EP here . . .