Clue To Kalo: Come Here When You Sleepwalk

IS THE LEGACY OF PUNK all those perky Californian skaters proffering spiky three-minute teen-baiting paeans to onanism and bad hair? Or is it something entirely different; the vicarious wherewithal for anybody to pick up an instrument and play? Punk itself didn't really break any rules; it just played to the rules louder and snottier than they'd been played to before; the systems it was smashing were more social and cultural than musical. Post-punk, on the other hand, really did offer expanded sonic horizons; PiL, Sandinista!, Wire, Talking Heads, Durutti Column, Joy Division; little or nothing in common sonically with 'New Rose', 'God Save The Queen' or 'Teenage Kicks', but facilitated by the call to arms that the racket of 76–78 heralded. Because after that, anyone really could try anything.