I guess that I did know that they were led by the original XTC keys player, Barry Andrews.
But I kinda let that slip through my brain and the info just didn't stick. Now, it is in there and I realize that, being a big XTC fan, I should probably check it out.
Any fans here?

And yes, I know that this is why Spotify exists; I am just trying to start a discussion and get thoughts from all of you fine people.
So… anyone?

EDIT:
And, AllMusic seems to think that the 2010 record that they put out is maybe the best record of their career:
http://www.allmusic.com/album/life-in-t ... 0002077823

Just put it into my Spotify queue.
Again: thoughts?

I didn't know about the XTC connection. All I knew was that Gang of Four bassist Dave Allen was in the band.

I've never heard anything that I know of, but this is a band I've been meaning to listen to for years.

I also didn't know the XTC connection, and all I know if the song "Nemesis." I feel like I heard a lot about them in the '90s as an influence, but haven't thought about them since then.

Consider yourself lucky that you've never heard them.

Key tracks for me include:
FROM 1985's Oil & Gold: Nemesis, Everything That Rises Must Converge, Faded Flowers, The Big Hush, Coelocanth.

FROM 1983's Jam Science: Suck, Mercy Dash

FROM 1985's Best Of Compilation: My Spine (Is The Bassline)

FROM 1986's Big Night Music: Black Light Trap, Gunning For The Buddha, The Reptiles And I, Sticky Jazz.

I usually liken them to the Tones On Tail/Love & Rockets/Bauhaus styled post punk/Goth/Experimental Dance genre. Many different members have joined and departed this band from other and too other pastures. Todd you played a cover of one of the side band's songs at the Blue Note in Columbia. King Swamp's "Is This Love" - a Dave Allen Side-project I fell in love with and forced us to cover at the Battle Of The Bands back in the day. You were there too. I swear. (Sad Olden Days reccolection-time)

Mid to late eighties Goth spiralled into a lot of side pockets, and Shriekback fit somewhere between Depeche Mode, Cabaret Voltaire, Renegade Soundwave, Nitzer Ebb, Blancmange, The The, Nine Inch Nails and the like. BUT, and this may be important to the story, they were one of the first to map this territory. I myself need to go back and sample their post 2000's albums too.

I don't remember covering that one. Although it sounds like something that we would have done.
The cover songs that I remember doing were "Head Like a Hole" (where I played bass) and something from The Cult (was it "Fire Woman"?).
And then we did a couple of originals.
And that, by the way, was the first time that I ever played in front of a crowd of any sort.