Not only the second Pere Ubu album, but their second album in 1978, Dub Housing follows the Avant-Garage blueprint of The Modern Dance, but everything is turned up, or should that be down a notch.

The music is denser in composition, and while none of it could be classed as dub, the bass is more prominent and there is more space in the mix, giving David Thomas room to moan and wail his themes of alienation and disaffection.

The lyrics also start to show Thomas gift at black comedy, when he howls I have desires in opening track Navvy, its almost like a punch line to a surreal joke. Even when Ubu break into What Became of the Drunken Sailor in the closing stages of Caligari’s Mirror you go along with it as it all makes sense, in a perverse way.

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