Divididos por la felicidad

So the story behind these guys is that Luca Prodan was a kid with rich parents who was sent to Argentina to clean up his act, because apparently heroin wasn't available in South America in the 80s.

With him coming to South America, he also brought a brand of post-punk mashed with reggae a la Clash or The Ruts, pretty much indigenous to the UK due to Caribbean immigrants. Their sound has an energy of a dense urban sprawl: punchy, and dissonant. Luca's lyrics are no Bob Marley-level of good, not even close, but they get the job done.

Essentially, your enjoyment boils down to how much you can enjoy the dubby instrumentals and Luca yelling "Babyloooon!" occasionally. The first half is more post-punk, while the other half is reggae and dub oriented, which would make this album an amazing EP, but it kinda falls short in the second half, especially with the abysmal Debede. Luca would hone is craft as the years went by, and this is a solid start, but a bit far from where I'd want it to be.