Mark Stewart + the Maffia – Learning to Cope with Cowardice [USED LP] Minimal / Wave / Synthpop The record takes the form

The record takes the form of two untitled side-long suites built from a series of portastudio jams and miniatures

"The Gordons crashed upon the do-it-yourself scene of early 1980s Christchurch with torrential force

ICS Library Records

is often considered the introduction of two brilliant solo projects (Spectrum and Spiritualized) rather than the work of a functioning band

And I Tried So Hard"

Mark Stewart + the Maffia – Learning to Cope with Cowardice [USED LP] Minimal / Wave / Synthpop The record takes the formpost pop group mischief on on u sound, humid dub assaults in a state of total o'erdrive, proper industrial dystopias. oppressive, delirious, wholly eternal. Japan Record Giraffe, 1983