The Mekons:
Retreat From Memphis

Eve Future 05:01
Lucky Devil 03:00
Do I Know You? 03:13
Insignificance 03:47
(Conversation With Boche)
His Bad Dream 03:01
Our Bad Dream 03:12
The Flame That Killed John Wayne 03:41
Ice Rink In Berlin 04:58
Spinning Round In Flames 04:42
Machine 03:58
Hostile Mascot02:35
Chemical Wedding 03:58
Spirals Of Paranoia 05:16
Missing You All 01:00
Submerged 03:15
Soldier 03:38
Never Work 03:40

NOTES:

1994 - CD Quarterstick (USA)
1994 - CD on Rough Trade (Germany) (159.1758.2)

The Mekons, once Leeds punk rock indie legends, enter their eighteenth year of recording as Chicago punk rock indie legends, having relocated to the Windy City and jacked themselves up with fresh enthusiasm. RETREAT FROM MEMPHIS is about their 9th (?? or 90s?) album and features a sound rooted in almost everything rock, from the gutsy yet ethereal Lucky Devil to the, well, gutsy yet ethereal "The Flame That Killed John Wayne." They sound like punk, they sound like rock, they sound like nothing has changed them and they sound like this is their debut album; they go on about rock and Chicago and love and a few topics that make no sense at all. They are The Mekons.

- Jimmy Nicol

Q, Issue #95 (August 1994)