Using homemade drum machines and grimly minimal electronics goosed with some guitars, Second Layer were darker and creepier than the bands that spawned them, and they lurked in the crossings of the trails blazed by Suicide, Fad Gadget, and Joy Division. It’s extraordinarily baffling and regrettable that popularity eluded them.īut concurrent with the Sound’s earliest years, Bailey and Borland had an even lesser-known project, Second Layer. Though the band suffered a mid-decade decline due to the onset of mental illness in Borland (he’d succumb to depression and take his own life in 1999), but they were and remain a favorite of the critics and the cognoscenti, easily comparable in sound and in top-notch quality to the Bunnymen, Furs, Chameleons-hell, name one of that era’s greats, and seriously, the Sound were every bit as good. I don’t need to tell TOO many Dangerous Minds readers about the Sound, do I? That exquisite London post-punk band was founded in 1978 by singer/guitarist Adrian Borland and bassist Graham Bailey-both refugees from one of the many, many bands to hit upon the idea of naming themselves the Outsiders-and they released a run of excellent albums between 1980-‘87.
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