Curated by Porcupine Tree guitarist Steven Wilson, the four-disc compilation Intrigue: Progressive Sounds in UK Alternative Music 1979-89 tackles the entirety of the 1980s with the mission of exposing the strangest, most inventive, and most abstract sounds coming out of the United Kingdom in a decade where music could often feel sterile or homogenized… AllMusic
“This is my personally-curated attempt to redress the balance, and to perhaps introduce any 1980s-sceptics out there to the idea that conceptual thinking and ambition didn’t suddenly evaporate after 1977. Ambitious, weird and thrilling music was all around you in the 1980s – if you looked in the right places.” – Steven Wilson
Steven Wilson Presents Intrigue: Progressive Sounds in UK Alternative Music 1979-89
Featuring 58 tracks, the collection explores the creativity, experimentation and progressive spirit of alternative British music from 1979-1989. Artists include Wire, XTC, The Stranglers, Ultravox, The Durutti Column, Cocteau Twins, Kate Bush, Tears for Fears, and many more.
Pressed at Pallas on seven 140g-vinyl, housed in printed inner sleeves and a rigid outer slipcase, with a 40-page booklet featuring an introduction by Steven Wilson and extensive track-by-track liner notes by James Nice.
Mastered by Phil Kinrade and cut by Cicely Balston and Barry Grint at AIR Mastering.
4 CDs housed in a mediabook with an 80 page booklet featuring an introduction by Steven Wilson, and extensive track by track liner notes by James Nice.
CD EDITION:
VINYL EDITION:
CD1
1. I Should Have Known Better – Wire
2. A Better Home in the Phantom Zone – Bill Nelson’s Red Noise
3. Back to Nature – Magazine
4. Complicated Game (Steven Wilson 2014 Mix) – XTC
5. Careering – Public Image Limited
6. The Raven – The Stranglers
7. Puppet Life – Punishment of Luxury
8. Astradyne (Steven Wilson Stereo Mix) – Ultravox
9. Contract – Gang of Four
10. I Travel (Extended Version) – Simple Minds
11. Sketch for Summer – The Durutti Column
12. Health and Efficiency – This Heat
13. Burning Car – John Foxx
14. Cognitive Dissonance (Steven Wilson 2022 Mix) – Robert Fripp and The League of Gentlemen
15. Fatal Day – In CameraCD2
1. I Can’t Escape Myself – The Sound
2. The Eternal – Joy Division
3. Big Empty Field – Swell Maps
4. Enemies – Art Nouveau
5. The Joy Circuit – Gary Numan
6. The Gospel Comes to New Guinea – 23 Skidoo
7. All My Colours – Echo and The Bunnymen
8. Ghost Town (Extended Version) – The Specials
9. They All Run After the Carving Knife – New Musik
10. The Him – New Order
11. White Car in Germany (Single Edit) – The Associates
12. Hit – Section 25
13. Sealand – Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
14. Talking Drum – Japan
15. Faith – The CureCD3
1. Three Dancers (Steven Wilson 2021 Mix) – Twelfth Night
2. Airwaves – Thomas Dolby
3. Are You Ready? – Crispy Ambulance
4. The Outsider – Rupert Hine
5. Knife Slits Water – A Certain Ratio
6. Memories Fade – Tears for Fears
7. Patient – Peter Hammill
8. Donimo – Cocteau Twins
9. In a Waiting Room – Mr and Mrs Smith and Mr Drake
10. Close (To the Edit) – The Art of Noise
11. Dalis Car – Dalis Car
12. Rawhide – Scott Walker
13. Brilliant Trees – David Sylvian
14. Dream Within a Dream – PropagandaCD4
1. Waking the Witch – Kate Bush
2. Ivy and Neet – This Mortal Coil
3. Beehead (7” Version) – Perennial Divide
4. This Corrosion – The Sisters of Mercy
5. Ascension – O Yuki Conjugate
6. No Motion – Dif Juz
7. Gutter Busting – SLAB!
8. Murderers, The Hope of Women – Momus
9. The Host of Seraphim – Dead Can Dance
10. R.E.S. – Cardiacs
11. Good Morning Beautiful – The The
12. Omega Amigo – The Shamen
13. Night Sky, Sweet Earth – No-Man
14. The 3rd Time We Opened the Capsule – Kitchens of Distinction
Package Dimensions : 7.68 x 5.59 x 0.63 inches; 12.06 Ounces
Manufacturer : Edsel Records
Original Release Date : 2023
Date First Available : October 19, 2022
Label : Edsel Records
ASIN : B0BJ1NDMRZ
Number of discs : 4