Take Death In June and extract all the Nazi crap, add genuine romance to the songs, along with a female singer who can carry that mood, and you get Duality.
The hard-to-find material he recorded from ’83 to ’85, most of it in an appealing light-pop vein that suits his thin voice and none-too-overreaching lyrics.
From experimental/ambient/avant noise to ripping, guitar-driven material with distorted vocals, to the throbbing percussion, Disengage speaks in many tongues.
Guitarist Daniel Ash, roadie Glenn Campling, and drummer Kevin Haskins after Bauhaus’ breakup, has had its output reconfigured into a number of releases.
ROIR’s previously cassette-only 2×4, a collection of early live clatter from the Teutons, has been remastered for CD, and it’s every bit what you’d expect.