LUXURIA - Unanswerable Lust

LP / CD Beggars Banquet 1988



"Luxuria was a duo consisting of former Buzzcocks and Magazine singer/songwriter Howard Devoto and Noko. Devoto began working with the Liverpool musician a few years after the release of his solo album, Jerky Versions of the Dream. The duo eventually released two albums on Beggars Banquet, which ranged from sparse acoustic accompaniment to involved dance beats. Unanswerable Lust was released in 1988 to lukewarm reception, followed two years later by the improved Beast Box".
(Andy Kellman, All Music Guide)

"Weirdness is a powerful lure. It seems human curiosity cannot help but be drawn to the strange - be it intriguing, unsettling or just plain odd. Howard Devoto, one gets the impression, is well aware of this, having wrapped an entire career around the concept of artful subversion. From the early punk playground of the Buzzcocks' Spiral Scratch EP to the nervy, fraught sounds of Magazine, Devoto has consistently delivered doses of the beguilingly bizarre. The Luxuria project (just a couple of paces shy of an 'art happening') found him paired up with enigmatic multi-instrumentalist Noko, a man who was occasionally heard to exclaim things like 'I live in sin and artifice with a diamond-encrusted cat and a small collection of religious icons in a council flat on the Isle of Dogs'. It was that sort of partnership. Pretentious? Well, perhaps just a little".
(Peter Parrish, eMusic.com)

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