Seminal early-'80s release from Dublin's most uncompromising post-punk collective, 'Hérésie' captures Virgin Prunes at their most raw, ritualistic, and confrontational. Originally released in 1982, the album compiles crucial early recordings that blur the boundaries between post-punk, industrial music, performance art, and gothic experimentation. Abrasive rhythms, atonal textures, and emotionally charged vocals define a sound that helped shape the darker, more extreme fringes of the post-punk movement. This newly expanded CD edition restores the original album in remastered form and includes a rare live recording from the Rex Club in Paris, capturing the band's intense and confrontational performance style. Housed with a 16-page booklet and featuring brand new sleeve notes by Jon Wood, this edition makes a vital and long hard-to-find title accessible once again in definitive form. Essential listening for fans of Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire and adventurous post-punk archives.

Disc 1

Track name

Artist

1.We Love Dierdre

Virgin Prunes

2.Rhetoric

Virgin Prunes

3.Down the Memory Lane

Virgin Prunes

4.Man in the Corner

Virgin Prunes

5.Nisam Lo

Virgin Prunes

6.Loved One

Virgin Prunes

7.Do't' Away Dierdre

Virgin Prunes

8.Caucasian Walk (Live at the Rex Club, Paris)

Virgin Prunes

9.Walls of Jericho (Live at the Rex Club, Paris)

Virgin Prunes

10.Pagan Lovesong (Live at the Rex Club, Paris)

Virgin Prunes

11.Theme for Thought (Live at the Rex Club, Paris)

Virgin Prunes

12.Come to Daddy (Live at the Rex Club, Paris)

Virgin Prunes

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