The record refuses to linger, spinning from psychotrope to meditative musical montage, from brilliant electric brain impulses to blue-purple aural tears.
Far from being bleak and forbidding, Bauhaus was inclusive, their cold blood a warm sacrament for the scrabbling weevils crawling over the teenage underbelly.
6FS uses drum machines, Moogs, Vocoders, and synth washes. But all the quirky technical trickery culminates in a sound that is the very essence of grunge.