![]() Since The Sound signed with major label WEA shortly after the released of World Of Rubber, the album ended up being Second Layer’s swansong, making it all the more sought after today. Second Layer’s heavily synthesized and dystopian ‘cold wave’ sound first surfaced on a couple of EPs, issued on their own Tortch label, and when debut album World Of Rubber was released on Cherry Red in 1981, it was a very different beast indeed, being far more abstract, the minimal instrumentation masking occasional morbid lyrics about Black Flowers, bodies in an open grave and, on In Bits, the disintegrating personality of Borland’s protagonist Japanese Headset subjected an unknown foreign soundtrack to stereophonic effects. The elbows are reinforced with a second layer of fabric and the cuffs can be adjusted. ![]() Post-punk duo Second Layer was formed in London in 1979 by southpaw guitarist / vocalist Adrian Borland and bassist / keyboardist Graham Bailey, who would both gain greater fame in the somewhat more mainstream act, The Sound Borland has previously been active in Wimbledon punk trio The Outsiders, which released two albums and an EP on their own Raw Edge label before disbanding. A pair of rubber earplugs are inserted in the top buttonhole. ![]()
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