Albania

While this Scottish group could accurately be called new wave, the kind of new wave they played would have probably happened even if punk had never existed. They favored danceable, lightly funky tunes with arch, eccentric lyrics. The presence of a saxophone in the lineup made it all the more easy to draw comparisons with some of <a href="spotify:artist:3fhOTtm0LBJ3Ojn4hIljLo">Roxy Music's</a> material; the electro-blip of some of the rhythms were akin to some of <a href="spotify:artist:0oSGxfWSnnOXhD2fKuz2Gy">David Bowie's</a> work in the latter part of the '70s; and the clipped vocal delivery sounded <a href="spotify:artist:20vuBdFblWUo2FCOvUzusB">David Byrne</a>-influenced. But, frankly, Albania weren't nearly as interesting as any of the artists mentioned above. They produced one album and a few singles for the Chiswick label in the early '80s, and did a dance single for Stiff in 1982 before calling it a day. ~ Richie Unterberger, Rovi

Top Cities

Related Artists

Woodhead Monroe

War Of Dreams

J Hines

Mystery Plane

Clive Langer And The Boxes

Mothmen

Trinitatis

Grow Up

Klaxon 5

Jimi Sumen Project

The Magic Sponge

Suicide Romeo

Paso de Cebra

Those French Girls

The Elements

They Must Be Russians

Cold Dogs in the Courtyard & Michael Sevy

Exploding Seagulls

Nurse

James Griffin