Unexpected

Vicious Pink

Unexpected

 

2024

  • 1.
    So You Want To Love Me?
  • 2.
    Alien Patience
  • 3.
    South Side
  • 4.
    Chaos 303
  • 5.
    Move Up Closer
  • 6.
    Undercover
  • 7.
    Not Your Kind of Girl
  • 8.
    Slightly Ahead
  • 9.
    Perpendicular
  • 10.
    Night Dive
  • MW082

Minim­al Wave is thril­led to pre­sent a long-awaited LP show­cas­ing pre­vious­ly un­released gems from the in­fluen­ti­al UK duo, Vici­ous Pink. Originat­ing from a seren­dipit­ous en­count­er in a smoky Leeds nightclub back in 1979, Josep­hine Ward­en and Brian Moss em­bar­ked on a mus­ical jour­ney that would re­define the synth-pop landscape. In­itial­ly known as Vici­ous Pink Phenomena, they made their mark by pro­vid­ing dis­tinctive­ly off-kilter back­ing voc­als for their friends in Soft Cell a col­labora­tion that un­fol­ded or­ganical­ly and with­out re­hears­al.
Trans­ition­ing to the simplified monik­er Vici­ous Pink, the duo con­tinued to cap­tivate audi­ences with their avant-garde sound, re­leas­ing a str­ing of singles that de­fied con­ven­tion­al ex­pec­ta­tions and clim­bed the UK dance charts bet­ween 1982 and 1986. De­spite their modest in­ten­tions, their music pro­ved to be both art­ful and pro­vocative, leav­ing an end­ur­ing lega­cy in the an­n­als of electronic music his­to­ry.
‘Un­ex­pected’ of­f­ers li­sten­ers a glimpse into the duo’s creative pro­cess, com­pil­ing pop ex­peri­ments re­cor­ded spon­taneous­ly, some in col­labora­tion with Dave Ball. Each LP is housed in a de­luxe glos­sy heavyweight sleeve, featur­ing cap­tivat­ing artwork that re­flects the ess­ence of Vici­ous Pink’s sonic uni­ver­se. Li­mited to 999 co­p­ies, pre­ssed on high-quality 160-gram Coke bottle clear vinyl, this re­lease pro­mises to be a col­lec­tor’s dream.
In­cluded with every LP, is a 5” x 7” post­card ador­ned with an ex­clusive, un­pub­lished photog­raph of Brian, Jose, and Dave, pro­vid­ing fans with a per­son­al mem­en­to of this re­mark­able mus­ical jour­ney. Re­lease date: May 21st, 2024. Get ready to dis­cov­er the magic of Vici­ous Pink in ‘Un­ex­pected.’

PRE-ORDER NOW AVAIL­ABLE. RE­CORDS SHIP ON MAY 21ST, 2024.

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