Soul Possession

Having already made her recording debut with Annie And The Asexuals at 16, New Yorker Annie Bandez transplanted into the post-punk / anarcho-punk landscape of the UK at the turn of the 80s — eventually leading to this mind-blowing album for Crass Records in 1984. Produced by the mighty Adrian Sherwood with his then wife and On-U Sound co-conpsirator Kishi Yamamoto on keyboards and African Head Charge‘s Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah on percussion among a large cast of Crass members and other scene stalwarts, it’s a relentlessly trippy, shadowy, weird collision of dub, industrial, electro-funk. Sounds merge into each other like illusions and Bandes’s chants, sneers and recitations take you through a complicated, simultaneously comical and terrifying psychodrama, and somehow it all grooves. Even after decades, it remains infernally joyful, but densely packed with mysteries still to be unpicked.