Finitribe - An Unexpected Groovy Treat

14 track CD album. Featuring remixes by Andrew Weatherall, Youth, Justin Robertson & Steve Osborne.
Edinburgh’s FiniTribe began their thirty-year existence as Gallery Macabre, twisting up the post-punk of Wire, 23 Skidoo and Throbbing Gristle with their own highly original take on contemporary instruments, samplers and visual image interpretation. They soon morphed into FiniTribe and quickly established themselves as outsiders from the then cooler than thou “Sound of Young Scotland” resounding loudly in the music press of the mid-80s.
“FiniTribe’s strong suit [on An Unexpected Groovy Treat] is an ability to blend electronic beats and a more traditional melodic pop sensibility to produce catchy – but far from mindless – songs. This knack is documented by the three singles collected on this release. The Andrew Weatherall remix of “101” is infectiously bouncy and “Ace-Love-Deuce” lends credence to suggestions that the band was an alternative Pet Shop Boys. The standout track, however, is the pulsing “Forevergreen,” which resurrects some of the social critique of the previous album, taking on the flourishing info-tech climate of the period”.