Learning To Cope With Cowardice

Learning To Cope With Cowardice

Learning To Cope With Cowardice â€“ the ground-breaking debut solo album by visionary post-punk iconoclast Mark Stewart â€“ is to be given a definitive reissue alongside The Lost Tapes, a newly discovered cache of unreleased material. After disbanding The Pop Group in the wake of a final performance at a momentous Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament rally in 1980, Stewart had grown disillusioned with the UKâ€™s music industry. Besides working for CND, Stewart had embarked on a prolonged visit to New York the same year, where he encountered a nascent hip-hop scene anchored by Kiss FMâ€™s Kool DJ Red Alert. Together with the sounds of inner-city construction sites â€“ in particular the heavyweight impact of pile drivers â€“ his exposure to the pioneering cut-and-paste of early hip-hop represented an epiphany that catalyzed Stewartâ€™s daring next project. Alongside this faithful reissue of the original comes The Lost Tapes, a collection that represents the outcome of a painstaking search and arrangement of previously unheard material. Brought together into a sequence of embryonic prototypes, frenzied dub versions and new archive discoveries, The Lost Tapes chronicles the early ideas and unknown stories that defined the outset of Stewart and Sherwoodâ€™s vastly influential work together.

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