From: England

Active: 1980–2007

I first heard of them: from Dan Schmidt, who wrote several posts raving about pretty much every song they ever made except for the one I like

Sound: Dan writes: “They’ve been described as ‘pronk’, or ‘prog-punk’, and I guess I can see that; there’s the musical interestingness of a lot of prog, combined with a punk sort of energy.”

Further reading: For ages “Is This the Life?” was the only song of theirs I’d heard that was accessible enough for me to really enjoy, but as of this writing the album it is drawn from has started to grow on me a bit.  Still basically a one-hit wonder for me, though.  But I can at least point you to Dan’s posts if you’d like to hear more.