ANNUNCIANO LA TANTO ATTESA RISTAMPA RIMASTERIZZATA DEL LORO ALBUM DI DEBUTTO ‘WHITE SOULS IN BLACK SUITS’ IN USCITA IL 7 NOVEMBRE 2025.

Clock DVA have announced details of a long-awaited remastered reissue of their debut album available for the first time in 35 years. The album – originally released on in 1980 as a limited cassette on Industrial Records – will be released on 7 November 2025 on grey vinyl and CD, via The Grey Area of Mute, expanded with four bonus tracks from the same era. They will embark on a US tour next month, full details below. And the band, who formed in Sheffield in 1978, quickly proved to do just that. Also inspired by science fiction, Russian constructivism and beat literature, Clock DVA soon created a unique sonic alchemy that for the best part of the last half century has proven to be an endlessly influential reference point across everything from post-punk to EBM via industrial and techno. This singular audio-visual assault quickly saw people take notice. Fellow Sheffield pioneers, Cabaret Voltaire soon became friends and collaborators, as did Throbbing Gristle who released the debut on their imprint, Industrial Records. ‘Anti-Chance’, taken from LP, was a direct collaboration with Cabaret Voltaire and saw two of Sheffield’s most innovative outfits join forces. “On ‘Anti-Chance’ we used random tapes from both DVA and Cabaret Voltaire” explains Newton. “It was a direct William Burroughs / Brion Gysin [inspired] audio cut up piece.” Chance is fundamental to change. The album features a lineup including Newton (voice, synth, clarinet, bowed electric guitar, and tape treatment), founding member Steven James Turner (bass treatment), David J. Hammond (guitar treatment), Charlie Collins (saxophone, flute & percussion), Roger Quail (percussion), and Simon M. Elliott-Kemp (synth), and was recorded at Cabaret Voltaire’s Western Works studio. “We set out to form a new sound combination” says Clock DVA’s Adi Newton. “To combine acoustics and electronics, merging the German electronic wave with the edge of The Stooges, the avant-garde of the French GRM Musique Concrète, and the pioneering audio-visual creativity of The Velvet Underground. To create a harder form of electronic music with real energy.”

‘WHITE SOULS IN BLACK SUITS’ TRACKLISTING (CAT # DVA1):
Consent
Discontentment
Discontentment 2
Still/Silent
Non
Relentless
Contradict
Film Soundtrack (Keyboards Assemble Themselves At Dawn)
Anti-Chance (feat. Cabaret Voltaire)
Brigade
Cage
No. 2
You’re Without Sound