Spasmodic Caress were an English post punk/New Wave

New Wave music

New Wave is a subgenre of :rock music that emerged in the mid to late 1970s alongside punk rock. The term at first generally was synonymous with punk rock before being considered a genre in its own right that incorporated aspects of electronic and experimental music, mod subculture, disco and 1960s...

  band that played many gigs along the East coast and in Ipswich, Colchester and London between 1979 and 1984. They recorded a track for the 4AD Records 12" compilation Presage(s) in 1980 and also released an album on Falling A Records

Falling A Records

Falling A Records is a Essex, England based independent record label formed in the late 1970s, and heavily involved with the D.I.Y cassette movement of the early 1980s...

. Bassist Peter Ashby went on to form the insane picnic

The insane picnic

In the early 1980s, English band The Insane Picnic were one of the pioneering D.I.Y. cassette bands, composed of members Peter Ashby, Barry Douglas Lamb and Owen Turley. They recorded several releases for the English independent record label Falling A Records...

 with Barry Lamb

Barry Douglas Lamb

-Musical career:He has released a number of solo albums which are avant-garde / electronic / industrial in nature. The album "Dusk" is perhaps his best known solo work . During his most prolific period, Lamb had regular correspondence with fellow contemporaries Bryn Jones of Muslimgauze, members of...

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Discography:

• "Hit the Dead" track on Presage(s) 12" (4AD - catalogue number BAD 11) - released 1980
• Hillside `79 cassette only release (Falling A - catalogue number FAC 101) - released 1983
• Fragments of Spasmodic Caress CD (Falling A - catalogue number EBSCD2) - released 2004