Blow Away Your Troubles Album

In 1981, Martin Newell and Lawrence "Lol" Elliot would record and release their debut cassette, Blow Away Your Troubles, under the Cleaners from Venus tag.  The tape's rough sound speaks of starry-eyed pop desperation -- as charming as it is aggressive -- and foretells the band's direction as they appropriate pop, psychedelia and even dub to shape their evolving sound.  Brooklyn-based label Captured Tracks lent the original cassette the 2xLP treatment in April of 2012; it contains all 22 tracks, all of which appeared on various permutations of the same tape the band sold in the early '80s.