The Telescopes - Third Wave LP Hip Hop The Box parking lot

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For thirty years

From its front-cover photo of four hooded hoodlums setting a street ablaze to the incendiary anthems contained inside

angular post punk that screams softly at our current scorching climate

The Telescopes - Third Wave LP Hip Hop The Box parking lotEnglish band The Telescopes were one of the great bands of the original wave of shoegaze in the late '80s early '90s. Inspired by Suicide, Velvet Underground, Stooges, Roky, et al, they signed to Creation and created an awesome din in a similar vein to Loop, Spacemen 3, MBV, etc. Third Wave was originally released in limited form in 2002 and now sees a beautiful and limited reissue (300 copies on 'ashen infused transparent' vinyl) on the Sydney label,