Gang of Four

Gang of Four can join the small club of "seminal" bands who got sick of being name-checked by more commercially successful alt rockers and reformed to show the kids how it's really done without embarrassing themselves. These re-recordings of their rhythmically thrilling, politically astute post-punk nuggets have no right to sound as timely and invigorating as they do.

Is this really necessary? reunited post-punk giants Gang of Four rerecord fourteen of the
best tracks from their early albums here, and as you'd expect from their powerful recent
live shows, Return the Gift sounds great -- the guitars squawk viciously, the funk-fascist
rhythm section skitters like an aural anxiety attack and the vocals are equal parts sneer
and melody. But the same is true of the classic, just-reissued original albums (197... More >