Released: 08/03/24
The Virgin Prunes’ debut album A New Form of Beauty (1981) blends haunting beauty and dark cruelty, mixing gentle vocals with anguished wails. Exploring themes of love, frustration, eroticism, and dystopia, the band crafted a macabre, uncanny soundscape. Self-produced, the album compiles the first four parts of a five-part multimedia project released by Rough Trade, including records and a live cassette, with the final part planned as a film performance.