Name: Contradictions
Brand: Thomas Leer

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

SPITTLE 113LP

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Colour

Black

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

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Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2022-02-25

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Forced Exposure

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

8056099005091

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2 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Thomas Leer

Genre US

Synthwave

Label US

Spittle

Thomas Leer is a Scottish musician who was born in 1953 in Port Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He has made significant contributions to the music industry with his unique style and experimental approach. With a career spanning several decades, Leer has established himself as an influential figure in the electronic and new wave genres.

Influenced by artists such as Bill Nelson, The Passage, and Paul Haig, Thomas Leer's music combines elements of synth-pop, post-punk, and avant-garde sounds. His innovative use of synthesizers and unconventional song structures sets him apart from his contemporaries.

Throughout his career, Leer has collaborated with notable performers including John Foxx, Section 25, Cabaret Voltaire, Chris & Cosey, Eyeless In Gaza, Colin Newman,and Fad Gadget among others. His collaborations have resulted in groundbreaking albums that continue to inspire musicians today.

Spittle Records present a reissue of Thomas Leer's Contradictions, originally released in 1982. The Scottish musician, born in 1953 in Port Glasgow, is one of the most eclectic artists of the so-called minimal wave scene. Alongside German singer Claudia Brücken (vocalist of the hit-makers Propaganda) he formed Act, a short-lived synthpop group signed to ZTT Records in the late '80s. Licensed by Cherry Red in 1982, the double album Contradictions is the third effort in Leer's high and rising career. After the seminal debut on Industrial Records with Robert Rental -- The Bridge (1979) -- Leer ventured on a solo career with the brave synth wave of Letter From America and his personal masterpiece Contradictions. The latter is such an enigmatic piece of work, with alien melodies as in the case of the "Soul Gypsy" infectious white funk. The whole album was recorded in his living room at home onto 4-track using borrowed equipment (Korg synth, Ult Sound drum computer, guitars) from his friend Morgan Fisher. Featuring Leer's haunting, uncertain vocal -- recorded quietly, so as not to wake his girlfriend in their bedsit! -- crooning over a minimal bass pulse and discreet whines and washes of primitive Wasp synthesizer, it retains its peculiar lo-fi magic four decades on.

Contradictions

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