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Sound Of Silence

Released: 6 May 2022
Format: CD
Tracks: 14
Label: Genetic Music

Happy anniversary! This new album marks the 40th anniversary of UV POP!

Four decades... it all started back in the days with the home-recorded "The Cellar Tapes" cassette followed by the first single and album both called "No Songs Tomorrow" who have become collectors' items and classics in the minimal synth & wave genre. UV Pop coming out of the legendary 80's Sheffield music scene the influences of that time can't be overheard and the first single was produced by Cabaret Voltaire. Various acclaimed EP's, 12-inches and albums followed, the song "Serious" probably being UV Pop's biggest 80's hit. The project went from being the solo-act of John K. White to a band project with various members over the time, playing gigs all over the UK and Europe and also played NY invited by the Sacred Bones record label who reissued the first album in 2012. Further reissues have followed since by genetic music incl. the classic second album "Bendy Baby Man" and also "The Cellar Tapes". The most recent release came out on genetic music in 2017 and was a double CD including a remastered version of the previously self-released "In Your Skin" album plus the as yet unreleased album "Stop The World".

This latest CD "Sound Of Silence" features 14 new tracks representing the whole variable scale of what UV Pop is all about: driving "Fall"-esque post-punk pieces, off-the-wall minimal and monotonous tunes, beautiful indie-guitar songs with a voice often reminiscent of David Bowie. Recent live favourites like "Mister Mystery" and "Black City" are also included. These days UV Pop is back to being a solo project using backing tracks and having a bass player live. 40 years of UV Pop, it's an obsession to be continued, John is already working on the next album...!

Tracklist

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1Unconfidential
2Floodgate
3Sirens
4You're The Only One
5Mr Parkinson
6Black City
7Someone Like You
8Open E
9Made Of Stone
10New Dimension
11Black City Reprise
12The Man Who Haunted Himself
13Mr Mystery
14Sound Of Silence

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UV PØP

John White was U.V. PØP right from the start when he began playing live early 1982. Back then his ´band´ consisted of nothing more than himself plus a series of pre-recorded backing tapes. The arrangement proved both pragmatic and effective as with this arrangement there were no other band members to consider, no compromises, just a man and his Revox and, as Richard Strange once sagely observed: ´A Revox doesn't answer back.´ This line-up served him well, early concerts included supports with In The Nursery, Danse Society and the fledgling Pulp.... His first single was recorded and produced by Cabaret Voltaire – it took him to support slots with hitherto unknown Culture Club, John Cooper Clarke and Nico plus an invite to perform in Holland and with it a live peformance on Radio Hilversum’s Sunday afternoon show VPRO Spleen. It was at this time that he was picked up by the legendary John Peel and this time also that john joined Sheffield group Artery as guitarist for a short tour of Italy and a series of UK dates, leaving subsequently however to concentrate on his main passion UV PØP. Future favourite songs emerged – like “No Songs Tomorrow”, “Serious”, ”Anyone For Me” and the uncompromising “Sleep Don’t Talk”. John’s catalogue expanded – first with the critically acclaimed “No Songs Tomorrow” album and it’s follow up “Bendy Baby Man”. This early material has been re-issued in recent years and the as yet unreleased material is coming out on genetic music. "The Cellar Tapes" (as a split with John's pre-UV POP band called the I Scream Brothers) and "In Your Skin" an album self-released in 1996. Both releases feature bonus material. A release of recent material is also planned...

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