Clock DVA’s 1980 album White Souls In Black Suits is being reissued.
Marking the first time that the band’s debut album has been officially made available on physical formats in 35 years, the album has been remastered especially for its updated release. It will be pressed across vinyl and CD formats, and made available digitally, with four bonus tracks from the same era also set to feature alongside the original album.
“We set out to form a new sound combination,” said Clock DVA’s Adi Newton in a statement about White Souls In Black Suits. “To combine acoustics and electronics, merging the German electronic wave with the edge of The Stooges, the avant-garde of the French GRM Musique Concrète, and the pioneering audiovisual creativity of The Velvet Underground. To create a harder form of electronic music with real energy.”
The album was originally released in 1980 as a limited cassette on Industrial Records. Several records followed across the 80s and 90s before the Sheffield band went into hiatus in 1995. Newton revived the project in 2008 and they are now set to play live shows in the US through September and October.
Listen to the opening track from White Souls In Black Suits, ‘Consent’, in remastered form below.
The Grey Area Of Mute will release White Souls In Black Suits on November 7, 2025.
