Graham Massey's Post Punk Playlist

Shack Up

Shack Up (Live in America)

Live in America

Wild Party (Live in America)

Fourth World Vol 1 Possible Musics

Rising Thermal 14° 16' N; 32° 28' E

My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

The Jezebel Spirit (2006 Digital Remaster)

Another Green World

In Dark Trees (2004 Remaster)

Action, time and vision
Action, time and vision
ATV equals 3/40 time
A equals action
T equals time
V equals vision and the four minds crack
In ATV, V, V, V, 
Action, time and vision
Action, time and vision
The chords the notes don't mean a thing
Listen to the rhythm and listen to us sing
Were in action and the four minds crack
In ATV, V, V, V, V
Action, time and vision
Action, time and vision
Action, time and vision
Action, time and vision
Everything's as clear as time
See the movement, see the mime
We’re in the vision and the four minds crack
In ATV, V, V, V, V 
Action, time and vision
Action, time and vision

[Copyright Music & Lyrics © ALTERNATIVE TV]

Action Time Vision  [Alternative TV Cover]

The Graveyard and the Ballroom

Flight (The Graveyard)

Frozen Blood

Deaf

Formed in 1978 with a core line-up of Jez Kerr, Martin Moscrop and Donald Johnson, A Certain Ratio emerged from the hallowed grounds of the late 70s punk scene, and from that day on they’ve moved forwards with gleeful disregard for the boundaries of style and genre, their eye fixed firmly on constant progression. It’s an ethos that’s open-minded over all else, and that’s seen the band take everything from experimental electronica to vintage funk, and filter it through their own Mancunian lens.
 
In 2024, It All Comes Down to This, and for now at least, is the sound of the current incarnation of A Certain Ratio. Indeed, in many senses, it is the purest distillation of their essential sound ever committed to tape. Their thirteenth studio album, it is the first time ever they have recorded strictly as the core trio of principle band members – multi-instrumentalists Jez Kerr, Martin Moscrop and Donald Johnson. 
  
From the moment the rattling, call-to-arms drumroll intro of opener ‘All Comes Down to This’ gives in to a wall of slithering, watery guitar squawks and bounding, rubbery bass notes, it is obvious that A Certain Ratio have once again been able to tap into a new artery of life. The record’s ten tracks present ten distinct moods, from the urgent, muscular, foreboding groove of ‘Keep It Real’ to the open, breezy, melodic synth of ‘God Knows’, every bursting moment of It All Comes Down to This is defiantly, resiliently alive.

Flight (The Graveyard)

A Certain Ratio

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