WALL OF VOODOO 1981 LP DARK CONTINENT Original Matching LABEL
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This is a WALL OF VOODOO 1981 LP titled DARK CONTINENT
Dark Continent is the debut studio album by the American rock band Wall of Voodoo, released in 1981 by I.R.S. Records. Early live versions of four songs ("Red Light", "Animal Day", "Back in Flesh" and "Call Box (1-2-3)") are featured on the compilation The Index Masters.
In a 1981 review in Trouser Press, Jon Young said, "[t]his deadpan opus is either a joke or just another pretentious search for meaning."
He continued, "Wall of Voodoo will need a better sense of the absurd to attain true strangeness.
Here they just don't go far enough."
In a later review in The Trouser Press Guide to New Wave Records (1983), Young stated that Dark Continent displayed "more polish" than the band's debut EP and benefited from "colorfully morose guitar and keyboards."
In a retrospective review, Greg Adams of AllMusic declared Dark Continent to be Wall of Voodoo's greatest album, pointing to strong songwriting and an original voice and style.
Conversely, Geoff Barton of Classic Rock magazine opined that the first two Wall of Voodoo albums did not age well; he found Ridgway's singing style "intensely irritating" and the music "too clever-clever for comfort."
Dark Continent reached number 177 on the Billboard 200 chart.
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