ORIGINALLY RELEASED IN 2010
A welcome reissue of the two key Flying Lizards
albums, innovative Pop Electronica from the
early 1980's Founded in 1978 by avant
-
garde
composer and producer David Cunningham as an
experimental pop band, The Flying Lizards rode
the crest of the New Wave pe
aking with the
international hit single Money. First album
players included sound stylists in their own right
David Toop and Steve Beresford, with vocals from
Vivien Goldman.
This also included the first two singles made by
Cunningham, Summertime Blues an
d Money with
monotone vocals by his art school colleague
Deborah Evans, recorded before the album. On
the second album Cunningham was even more
experimental and brought in contributions from
Michael Nyman and Robert Fripp, plus vocals by
Patti Palladin.
Less successful commercially but more highly
rated critically at the time.The music
Cunningham created follows after Kraftwerk and
Tangerine Dream, helping pave the way for the
employment of electronica in later UK pop music
with the likes of Stereolab, St
Etienne and
Portishead