Cherry Red Records Issue “Moving Away From The Pulsebeat” Post Punk Boxset

Punk rock attracted both dreamers and schemers. Many were simply fired up by the music. Some were motivated by manifestos and personal agendas. Others vanished the moment the novelty wore off and the hair dye washed out, leaving behind one or two fine records. Others, like The Clash, The Jam and The Cure, resolved to stay the course, giving themselves new challenges while carving out successful careers. Above all, the post-punk landscape was populated with cult heroes. To capture that spirit Cherry Red Records have today released the Moving Away From The Pulsebeat boxset that takes a whistlestop trip through that landscape as the dust settled on the apocalyptic overhaul of 1977. Curated in chronological order to preserve that journey, and capturing key singles, deep album cuts and fan favourites, this is the story of a genuinely subversive underground about to erupt upon the mainstream, rendering everything that had gone before irrelevant overnight. Presented in extreme detail, with band by band biographies, sleeve imagery, release information and introductory essay by the widely published Mark Paytress, Moving Away From The Pulsebeat is an essential time capsule for veterans, collectors and newcomers alike.

Moving Away From The Pulsebeat contains 105 tracks spread across five CDs that charts the British post punk explosion from 1978 – 1981. It offers a compendium of familiar names, underground oddities and freshly excavated nuggets, including tracks from Echo & The Bunnymen, Killing Joke, Public Image Ltd, Siouxsie & the Banshees, The Teardrop Explodes, Scritti Politti, The Cure and many more.