{"product_id":"conscious-consumer","title":"Conscious Consumer","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe sophomore and final studio album from punk icons - X-Ray Spex. The highly sought after album received a very limited CD only release in 1995 on Receiver Records in the UK and has been officially unavailable for the past 27 years!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe album reunited the iconic X-Ray Spex vocalist - Poly Styrene with original X-Ray Spex saxophonist - Lora Logic and bassist - Paul Dean, as well as guitar from Kula Shaker frontman Crispian Mills under his then pseudonym Red Spectre.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis release has been remastered from the original master tapes and is available on LP for the first time ever! Including the original and expanded artwork, including previously unpublished lyrics and original sleeve notes from Poly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePop culture is full of classic albums that slip between the cracks. In recent years the late Poly Styrene and X-Ray Spex have achieved iconic status with their 1978 debut \u003ci\u003eGermfree Adolescents\u003c\/i\u003e album but the group’s follow up album \u003ci\u003eConscious Consumer\u003c\/i\u003e released 17 years later has been lost to the sands of time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese days most people don’t even realise that X-Ray Spex had a follow up to what is now embraced as one of the classics of the punk rock period. This lovingly compiled revisit puts the spotlight on a lost gem that has many of the hallmarks of the debut but is sieved through a different lens. \u003ci\u003eConscious Consumer\u003c\/i\u003e was an upgrade of the classic debut with a same punk rock urgency and themes of consumerism but with a poppier edge and a more considered wisdom gleamed from the ups and downs of life from the perspective of an older, wiser, Krishna devotee.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1995 the album was an unexpected comeback and a lost classic. It was the first new material recorded by the band for years despite many of the songs being written a decade before. On release, though, the album disappeared into a void being out of sync with the times and before Poly got her deserved iconic status.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe band who also re-formed in 1991, 1995 and 2008 are now revered worldwide for sparking a new kind of attitude in music. The late Poly is now a pop culture pin-up for an originality and feminism that barely existed at the time. Her acerbic, witty and brilliant lyrics and distinctive voice have stood the test of time, and along with the band’s original sax player Lora Logic, she has become part of the punk rock narrative. The fuzzy snapshots of the brief early lineup see the sassy and sharp dressed teenager core oozing talent, originality and style in a freeze frame of pop culture punk rock perfection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eListening to the album again after a long break, Paul Dean is surprised.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Conscious Consumer now sounds so much better than I remember. It wasn’t properly released at the time and so no one knows about it. If you love Germfree Adolescents you will love Conscious Consumer they are linked together. X-Ray Spex didn’t have just one great album it was two!”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Do Yourself In","offers":[{"title":"Clear LP","offer_id":50390894969163,"sku":"2144013","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50390894182731,"sku":"2144010","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50390895821131,"sku":"2144015","price":32.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/X-Ray_Spex_-_Conscious_Consumer_95275692_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726395821","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/products\/conscious-consumer","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}