The Psychedelic Furs
The Best Of DEMON
Collected musical highs of an enduring great British band.
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With reunion tours and recent, excellent, albums, it’s a good time to be a Psychedelic Fur. Perhaps nobody could have predicted, 40 or so years ago, that they would still be around in the 21st century.
By no means a characterless band, the Psychedelic Furs nevertheless seemed to lack the stadium greed or occasional blandness that was so useful to near-contemporaries such as U2 and Simple Minds. Certainly their early work managed to retain the punk sneer while adding a strangeness all their own: songs like India and Sister Europe seemed to allude to Bowie and the Velvet Underground while fitting snarkily into a post-punk England of Only Ones-style charity-shop drag and John Peel session acceptability.