Name: The Crackdown
Brand: Cabaret Voltaire

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

cabs22cd

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2019-01-04

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

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UPC / Barcode

5099999382322

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

LCABS22

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2022-06-17

5400863059316

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / grey

Artist

Cabaret Voltaire

Genre GB

New Wave / Post Punk

Label GB

Mute

The Crackdown is the fourth studio album by Cabaret Voltaire. It was released in 1983. This is Cabaret Voltaire's first album after Chris Watson's departure. One of Cabaret Voltaire's strongest albums, The Crackdown features the band working a number of menacing electronic textures into a basic dance / funk rhythm; the result is one of their most distinctive, challenging records.

The album fuses their earlier experimental records with the electronic dance-funk sound that would become more prominent within their subsequent releases and includes the magnificent haunting single ‘Just Fascination’. The significance of The Crackdown has grown over the decades, also enlisted in NME’s best albums of 1983.

The Crackdown

Music GB