‘Dark Places’, the newest e.p., expands the mantle set by 'Opposing Forces', introducing four songs cascading between full-on rock to a kind of abstract minimalist electronics approach perfectly in keeping with Alternative TV’s occasional traverses to the furthest reaches. Each track, pinned into place by Dave Morgan and Clive Giblin, arrives with its own distinctive approach, enhanced further by the legendary Vic Godard’s guest appearance on guitar on ‘Like a Tomb’, once more encapsulating a vision as perfectly widescreen as it is bifurcated.
Mark Perry one of the most pronounced of its original agitators/commentators and profoundest songwriters to arise from a vibrant period in music seeped in exploratory promise, with the help of has never once failed to deliver on precisely that.
‘Dark Places’, whilst, as anticipated, completely unlike where Alternative TV were 41 years ago, pays testament to deep metamorphosis both internally and externally in this ongoing quest.
