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 eventually the album it is drawn from started to grow on me a bit.  Here’s another selection from that one:

“A Little Man and a House” (1988)