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I've never heard Commercial Zone, but I'd been listening to This Is What You Want, This Is What You Get before this news. Though Levene didn't perform on the record, there's a lot of stylistic continuity with The Flowers of Romance, just with cleaned-up sonics. Of course, the Metal Box lineup had an incredible group dynamic that they weren't going to be able to recapture, but I wonder if they would have become a more commercial act even if Levene had remained.

Well, the hit single version of "This is not a love song" was Levene aplenty, and the rest of "Commercial Zone" is very like that, yes.

Those late Levine-era live shows with Atkins and Pete Jones definitely feel like they are walking back towards a more conventional pop place - like the Ritz show was a peak of their confrontational era - I remember being quite surprised by how tight and crowd-pleasing they sounded on the bootlegs I have heard

in my levine memorial listening i dug into the expanded metal box last night - didn’t know there was a long version of radio 4 - simultaneously fascinating and disappointing to hear this, one of those ones where the LP edit is just perfect in the way it hints at extra dimensions to the song that are just out of reach

I need to dig it out but I've got the reworking of Commercial Zone he did on privately released CD-R in 2014 somewhere. Should be relatively obvious, I seem to remember it has some spray painted 12" cardboard in lieu of a sleeve.

Collab with Supreme dropping on Thursday, some nice pieces here:

https://i.imgur.com/Dqjo5vUl.jpg

xpost: https://www.discogs.com/release/7023459-Keith-Levene-CZ2014

That's the one

new album tomorrow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_of_World

UK/Europe tour Sept/oct 2023 https://www.pilofficial.com/tour/

I’ve liked most of what I’ve heard of this so far.

yeah this album is good