"Laughing Afternoon" was the debut album released by elusive U.K. group Bourbonese Qualk, a band who gets thrown into the industrial category despite having a varied and unique sound that exists in a freakish world of its own. The band was fully independent, recording and releasing all of their own records while maintaining a notorious venue called Ambulance Station, where performances included vandalism and political demonstrations. As far as musical comparisons are concerned, Swiss post-punkers Grauzone come to mind; there is something about both groups that is not quite danceable, not really post-punk and not really industrial. "Laughing Afternoon" is nevertheless an intense statement, a murky subterranean journey that occasionally resurfaces for a few moments to make room for an echoey saxophone... and possibly even an accordion?
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