Minimal Wave Records

Minim­al Wave is honored to pre­sent West View, a doub­le LP of rare demos and newly re­mas­tered clas­sics by UK duo Vici­ous Pink. Vici­ous Pink was an electrify­ing synth-pop duo for­med by Josep­hine Ward­en and Brian Moss, who met in a smokey Leeds nightclub in 1979. The pair for­med their band Vici­ous Pink Phenomena and soon after went on to pro­vide glorious­ly off-kilter back­ing voc­als for their friends, Soft Cell, com­plete­ly un­rehear­sed. Later, they drop­ped Phenomena to simpl­ify their name. Bet­ween 1982 and 1986, they re­leased seven singles that all rea­ched the UK dance charts, de­spite the fact that their am­bi­tions never lay in com­mer­ci­al suc­cess. To this day, their music re­mains art­ful, cat­chy, and pro­vocative. West View com­piles materi­al from their early days togeth­er, featur­ing pre­vious­ly un­released demos as well as newly re­mas­tered clas­sics like Cccan’t You See and My Private Tokyo (12” Vers­ion). The doub­le LP is housed in a glos­sy heavyweight sleeve, ac­companied by a 12-page LP-sized book­let featur­ing the duo’s en­tire ‘how it hap­pened’ story, un­pub­lished lyrics, and un­pub­lished photos from those early years. The doub­le LP is li­mited to 999 co­p­ies, half the pre­ss­ing is on neon pink 160-gram vinyl the other half on 160-gram black vinyl. All ord­ers made di­rect­ly through our web­site or our Bandcamp site will be ac­companied by a 6” x 9” post­card of a pre­vious­ly un­pub­lished photog­raph of Vici­ous Pink. The re­lease will also be avail­able di­gital­ly. Re­lease date: Feb­rua­ry 14th, 2022. Pre-order, here.