| Release Date: | 07/11/2025 |
| Format: | 2LP Grey/ CD |
| Label: | Mute |
| Catalogue Number: | DVA1LP/ DVA1CD |
Available for first time in over 35 years, Clock DVA’s ‘White Souls In Black Suits’ - originally released in 1980 as a limited-run cassette on Throbbing Gristle’s Industrial Records - now returns in a newly remastered edition on CD and grey double vinyl, reissued via The Grey Area of Mute and expanded with four bonus tracks from the same era.
Led by the visionary Adi Newton, Clock DVA remains one of the most enigmatic and shape-shifting acts to emerge from Sheffield. Their catalogue spans mutant funk, noir
jazz and coldwave electronics, with ‘White Souls In Black Suits’, paired with the additional tracks, offering an insight into the early morphology of their sound.
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 and percussion), Roger Quail (percussion) and Simon M. Elliott-Kemp (synth).
Recorded at Cabaret Voltaire’s Western Works studio, the album is loosely structured, largely improvised and steeped in the influence of Sheffield’s early industrial and goth scene.
‘White Souls In Black Suits’ evokes a world of surveillance, obsession and psychological decay - a debut that set the tone for Clock DVA’s ever-evolving vision and an essential
record of the original industrial era.
CD in card eco pac. Grey double vinyl with 12-page booklet (available in initial
pressings only).
Tracklist
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