Magazine – Secondhand Daylight (VG+/E)

Secondhand Daylight is an LP by Magazine released on the Virgin label.

About this album

Secondhand Daylight is Magazine’s stark, ambitious second album and one of the key British post-punk records of 1979. With Howard Devoto’s detached, literate vocals pushed against shimmering keyboards and angular guitar lines, the band widened the scope of new wave into something colder, darker and more unsettled. The record balances immediate tension with a more art-rock intelligence, giving songs such as Cut-Out Shapes and Permafrost a harsh, memorable edge. It confirmed Magazine as one of the era’s most distinctive groups, bridging punk’s urgency with a more sophisticated, experimental musical vision.

Genre: Punk & Alternative

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