Jane from Occupied Europe

About Jane from Occupied Europe

... In "Jane from Occupied Europe" is the second album by British post-punk group Swell Maps. The original 1980 issue of the album, released on Rather Records/Rough Trade, contained the first fourteen tracks, and the reissue in 1989 released by Mute Records added eight bonus tracks. In 2018, Pitchfork ranked it 165th on their list "The 200 Best Albums of the 1980s", writing: "Swell Maps pasted mostly incomprehensible, drawled vocals into noisy, krautrock-inspired sound collages, straying further beyond the boundaries of any existing genre with each release. Their second album, Jane From Occupied Europe, marked the culmination of that trajectory. It was, most of all, a catalog of thrilling new sounds". The album title was also adapted by a band eight years later, who told NME, “Swell Maps thought up some really great titles and, er… we just ripped it off.” more »