In 1983, Pearce borrowed some of the band's record advance money from their new label, Fresh, to fund another project's tour. ![]() The band thought themselves to be very serious musicians but the music takes on a light air due to the splicing and humor throughout. Influenced by Syd Barrett, The Kinks, and This Heat, Pearce moved his compositions from psychedelics to drones to proto-electronic music full of cut-up location recordings. The band was led by odd splices of tape, dub effects, and Dominique Levillain's chanteuse vocals. Begun in 1979 by Alig Pearce, a label called Small Wonder released their first 7" when they still went by the name Te Deum (Interestingly, the other two singles released concurrently by the label were the first Cure single and Bauhaus' "Bela Lugosi's Dead"). ![]() Family Fodder was less a band than a never-ending collective of musicians messing with tapes in the basement of a London flat.
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