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THIS POISON!

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Formed in Perth (Scotland) in 1985 This Poison! went onto release 2 singles (Highest Indie chart position 16, 14 Weeks on Chart) on The Wedding Presents Reception Records in 1987 and toured with McCarthy, The Wedding Present and headlining on their own right around the UK. A Peel Session followed in Nov 1987.

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"This is probably my favorite release in the Egg Restoration Programme to date - not just because the band was dead brilliant (which they were), but because of the number of previously unreleased tracks on the disc. I have both of the original singles (which was all the band released, apart from a couple of comp tracks) and love them dearly, so when I saw that this disc added an additional ten tracks on top of them... ...well, needless to say I was rather excited. The band's two singles were released on the Wedding Present's Reception Records, which was a match made in heaven. The guitars are ferociously jangly and the bass lines are as fluid as they are trebly. It was clear that This Poison! had precisely the same Postcard influences as the Weddoes. Of the ten extra tracks, seven of them are previously unreleased studio sessions, while the last three are demos - all of which are just as brilliant as the original four songs from the singles. This band certainly deserves to be rescued from obscurity, and let's hope this disc does just that! 14/14 " - Indiepages

"This Poison!'s "Magazine" compilation is manna for those like me who felt that the spirit of the Wedding Present '85-'87 should have been bottled in order that I could spend the rest of my life drinking cratefuls, if not lorryfuls, of the stuff. Yes there was much more to This Poison! than the furious, urgent jangling of their labelmasters - but it's hard not to have early TWP as a reference point when you listen to "Magazine"'s hurtling energy and frenetic guitars mixed with some poignant, aware lyrics (such as the kitchen sink drama which unfolds over "Question Mark", at a pace even the young Gedge would have baulked at). The CD starts with the four tracks from their first two singles on Reception Records, last compiled as the "Fierce Crack!" 12" close on 20 years ago: "Poised Over The Pause Button" needs no introduction. Here, though, we get effectively a "lost album": I remember "Driving Skills" (aka "James Dean Is Dead") and "Question Mark", songs of the same fine ilk, from their Peel Session, while "The Great Divide" surfaced only on the Airspace compilation LP, and is arguably their finest song of all, showing their political side as it bemoans the poverty gap of Thatcher's Britain." - In Love with these times

"it's fast treble heavy indie pop that sits somewhere between the wedding present and josef k and orange juice's postcard era recordings." - Rough Trade