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Seminal early-’80s release from Dublin’s most uncompromising post-punk collective, Hérésie captures Virgin Prunes at their most raw, ritualistic, and confrontational.
Originally released in 1982, the album compiles crucial early recordings that blur the boundaries between post-punk, industrial music, performance art, and gothic experimentation. Abrasive rhythms, atonal textures, and emotionally charged vocals define a sound that helped shape the darker, more extreme fringes of the post-punk movement.
This newly expanded CD edition restores the original album in remastered form and includes a rare live recording from the Rex Club in Paris, capturing the band’s intense and confrontational performance style. Housed with a 16-page booklet and featuring brand new sleeve notes by Jon Wood, this edition makes a vital and long hard-to-find title accessible once again in definitive form. Essential listening for fans of Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire and adventurous post-punk archives.
Tracklist
We Love Deirdre
Rhetoric
Down the Memory Lane
Man on the Corner
Nisam Lo
Loved One
Go't' Away Deirdre
Caucasian Walk (Live at the Rex Club, Paris)
Walls of Jericho (Live at the Rex Club, Paris)
Pagan Lovesong (Live at the Rex Club, Paris)
Theme for Thought (Live at the Rex Club, Paris)
Come to Daddy (Live at the Rex Club, Paris)