★★★★✩
All that was missing from the recent reissue of Into The Gap was a DVD/Blu-ray update of the Into The Gap Live VHS. If we still can’t see what Joe Leeway brought to the Twins’ famed precursor to the modern pop live spectacle, at least we can finally hear it. The audio from a stadium Californian concert proves how taut the band were under the pop gloss. The crazed mania to their workrate back then pays off, by making shiny pop hits sound like an anarchist manifesto for the masses. An exciting punkier version of their studio streamlining.