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Where has Danielle Dax gone? It was after this stunning record that she recorded her major lable debut (Blast The Human Flower) and then seemed to disappear. Still - she left us with some great records and Inky Bloaters is one of them.Dax's work started off being very minimal (on the Pop Eyes LP) and all of a sudden took a detour in to lush rhythms and sounds and a grab-bag of styles from Eastern to disco to pop to country. You get it all here, and what's more, it works.I love 'Fizzing Human Bomb' where Dax squeals a great pop song over a T-Connection sample and Peter Gunn guitars. You alsomore… get the alomst annoying Maggie Thatcher critique 'Bad Miss M', the groovy 'Funtime' (written about her ex-musical partner Karl Blake, I believe) the disco-on-another-planet of 'Big Hollow Man' and the raucous raga of 'Where The Flies Are'.It has dated, but Dax was so far ahead, above, below, beyond all of her contemporaries that her music still occupies it's own strange little universe, something that I doubt will ever change. Although, why she was adopted so lovingly by the gothic generation is beyond me, half of this is mutant country and western!PS: In case you're wondering about the title an Inky Bloater is what my mother used to call 'Mr Nobody' - the unseen prescence that causes doors to close and things to move around. Listen to the title track for the rest of the story!

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Danielle Dax - Inky Bloaters (1993) Retail CD

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