Medium Medium

Deluxe triple vinyl gatefold edition pressed on colour vinyl with printed inners.

Medium Medium’s debut album, The Glitterhouse, was originally released on Cherry Red in October 1981. This reissue also features the “Hungry, So Angry,” single version which was produced by Adrian Sherwood at Berry Street Studio in London.

In Sound International magazine Dave Henderson wrote prophetically, “It could be one of the most important records of the type to emerge this year and will doubtlessly be revered as a classic after the group have long since departed.”

Also included is a selection of tracks from Cherry Red’s 2001 Hungry, So Angry retrospective compilation album, the B-side of the band’s debut single on Apt and a previously unreleased demo version of a song from the 1982 Sound-Products EP. It includes a bonus EP featuring previously unreleased tracks from the 2008 Village recording session. All of the various lineups of Medium Medium are represented.

Formed at the end of 1978 Medium Medium’s self-described “extreme dance music” had reviewers scrambling to draw comparisons with the band’s contemporaries and find a label for its post punk sound.

Medium Medium’s solid dance rhythms and chaotic, chiming guitar were superficially reminiscent of the Gang of Four and Talking Heads, but Rees’s tangential sax playing and Graham’s tape and keyboard interjections from the front-of-house mixing desk took Medium Medium in another direction.

“Free-blown dubbed-up white funk” was how Max Bell described the sound in England’s New Musical Express (NME). “At the forefront of the post punk funk movement,” raved Cashbox in the U.S. Billboard magazine opined that this was “post punk and post disco dance music.”

side 1 1 Hungry So Angry 2 Serbian Village 3 The Glitterhouse 4 Guru Maharaj Ji
side 2 5Further Than Funk Dream 6 Mice Or Monsters 7 That Haiku
side 3 8 Nadsat Dream 9 Them Or Me 10 Freeze 11 Splendid Isolation 12 7th Floor 13 If You Touched Her She’d Smear
side 4 14 Hungry So Angry (Single Version) 15 Frightened Child 16 Full Of Secrecy 17 Praying 18 Hidden Fears
side 5 19 OK We Go
side 6 20 Let Me Breathe (You’re) Obsessed