SOUND ON SOUND ( AS BILL NELSON'S RED NOISE)

New Wave rock classic Sound on Sound starts full throttle and doesn't let up until your aural senses have been pummeled into submission. This is literate and urgent late seventies guitar based new wave jam rock that is too idiosyncratic to be mainstream, too intelligent to be accepted by massive outsiders. Bill apparently thought Red Noise was a musical dead end but this is a beauty that should satisfy many occasions when blistering rock music is called for. One listen to the opener Don't Touch Me (I'm Electric) and you'll know what I mean. 4.5 stars and the arrival of Nelson as a mature artist.