A complete demo recording for the most part, this eleven track re-release, separated into two, features the original five songs that were "Subsequent Pleasures" including "Going Round," and "Muscoviet Mosquito" which sound every bit as dark and quite impoverished as is expected of a first go for an outfit still getting themselves situated -- at a time when the likes of the Cocteau Twins and Dead Can Dance were quickly making their presence felt in the circles of Electro/Goth. "Strange 9 to 9" features a particularly eerie melody line, fascinating yet creepy in the one extreme, yet a beautifully sordid blend of echoing harmonies and haunting vocals.

Tracks 6 - 11 feature the Clan's original demo's, significant of their getting started with the 4AD label back in '85 and the "Clan of Xymox" original release. Beginning with the intriguing somewhat distant sounds of "A Day," and highly electronic beats of "Stumble And Fall" with its weathery rhythmic attributes and fawning harmonic properties, becomes a quickly discovered treasure foretelling all that this band was capable of.

Trailing off with "7th Time," the highly synthesized and windswept nature withholds none of the emotive properties we've come to embrace from a band renowned for their musical innovations. Having traveled far since their obscure beginnings as a threesome with a vision for creating unsettling yet catchy melodies under the illuminative effects of a moonlit sky under just enough cloud cover, Clan of Xymox, a 1980's phenomenon though they were prove their best years still lie ahead and here, rediscovered for the first time how it all began.