Computerclub – Before the Walls Came Down [Single]
 

For the first 15 seconds 'Before The Walls Came Down', the title track on Computerclub’s debut album, sounds exactly like a John Barry 60s spy movie score. For the next two minutes and thirty four seconds it sounds exactly like a long-lost Echo & the Bunnymen B-side. No, really. EXACTLY. Younger listeners may be throwing Interpol/Editors comparisons at this but I now only hear Ian McCulloch.

The lyrics also suggest a sealed-in-a-time-capsule message from another era:

80s new wave sombre has much currency and Computerclub deliver it with muscular aplomb on this track – I suspect Editors-style success awaits them. But I’m still in shock.

Ian.
Bloody.
McCulloch.