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Susan Whitby was 15 years old and had been playing saxophone for a little more than six months when she joined her friend Marion Elliot(akaPoly Styrene) and formed the great English punk band X-Ray Spex in 1976. At this juncture, Whitby renamed herself Lora Logic and broughtherhonking and squawking to X-Ray Spex’s guitar-propelled punk rock, staying in the band long enough to record the seminal feminist-punksingle“Oh Bondage, Up Yours!” Prior to the recording of their debut album, Logic abruptly left the band to follow her own quirky songwritingmuse andformed the wonderfully named Essent ...read more
Susan Whitby was 15 years old and had been playing saxophone for a little more than six months when she joined her friend Marion Elliot(akaPoly Styrene) and formed the great English punk band X-Ray Spex in 1976. At this juncture, Whitby renamed herself Lora Logic and broughtherhonking and squawking to X-Ray Spex’s guitar-propelled punk rock, staying in the band long enough to record the seminal feminist-punksingle“Oh Bondage, Up Yours!” Prior to the recording of their debut album, Logic abruptly left the band to follow her own quirky songwritingmuse andformed the wonderfully named Essential Logic. Eschewing fast and loud guitars for off-kilter rhythms, “bluesy” sax playing, and foraysintodissonance and atonality, Essential Logic created some of the most liberating, exciting music of the early post-punk era. Along withherprimitive, exhilarating sax playing, Logic displayed a wildly imaginative vocal style that conflated the subtle eroticism of Patti Smith withtheepiglottal spasms of Yoko Ono. Singing, braying, and screeching her implicitly (at times explicitly) feminist lyrics while her backing bandcrashedand bashed in the background, this was almost a punk version of that most despised of genres, art rock. And while the subjects of mostof hersongs were serious (alienation, sexism, poverty, urban isolation), there was a bratty tongue-wagging raffishness to Logic (and band) thatplacedthem a cut above the rest. After one album as Essential Logic, Lora Logic disbanded the group to go solo. « hide |
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