Cabaret Voltaire
The Crackdown LP (silver grey vinyl)

The Crackdown is the fourth studio album by Cabaret Voltaire. It was released in 1983. This is Cabaret Voltaire's first album after Chris Watson's departure. One of Cabaret Voltaire's strongest albums, The Crackdown features the band working a number of menacing electronic textures into a basic dance / funk rhythm; the result is one of their most distinctive, challenging records.

The album fuses their earlier experimental records with the electronic dance-funk sound that would become more prominent within their subsequent releases and includes the magnificent haunting single ‘Just Fascination’. The significance of The Crackdown has grown over the decades, also enlisted in NME’s best albums of 1983.

NEW / Released 1983 / Reissue 2022

Tracklist:

A1 24-24

A2 In The Shadows

A3 Talking Time

A4 Animation

B1 Over And Over

B2 Just Fascination

B3 Why Kill Time When You Can Kill Yourself

B4 Haiti

B5 Crackdown