Exfiltration Radio: I live on stolen time

The calendar has wrapped around again and it’s time for some more Exfiltration Radio! This time out we fall down a deep well of songs that can trace their DNA to the influence of New Order or its parent band Joy Division. There’s not so much of a thematic connection among the songs this time, though a great many of them are from post-punk bands who released these records in the early 1980s. Instead, the unifier is the sound: prominent, melodic bass lines, drums that seem to take equal parts from shamanic quests, marching band lines and disco fills, and a whole lot of open fourths and fifths. Often (but not always) the guitar lines are clean and bright above a bed of synths, and all in all there’s that sound of a band shaking off the darkness and finding redemption in motion. We begin where this mix did, with The Glove’s uncanny “Like an Animal.” My initial listening to this in the late summer had me doing a double take when the vocals came in, because I could swear that the…