Basement 5 – The Last White Christmas – still essential after 40 years
Basement 5 belong on any post-punk playlist, if only for their timeless 1980 single Silicon Chip. And their mostly-long-forgotten Last White Christmas would liven up any seasonal mixtape. So here it is. History may record Basement 5 as a footnote in post-punk: a failed experiment in fusing punk, reggae and synth-pop. Perhaps they were just […]
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