The Scientists, Blood Red River
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2020
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Stratton, J.
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Stratton, J.
Dale, J.
Mitchell, T.
Dale, J.
Mitchell, T.
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Source details - Title: An Anthology of Australian Albums: Critical Engagements, 2020 / Stratton, J., Dale, J., Mitchell, T. (ed./s), Ch.4, pp.53-66
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The Scientists released Blood Red River as a mini-album in 1983 on Bruce Milne’s Melbourne-based independent label, Au Go Go. At the time the group were resident in Sydney, where Kim Salmon had re-established the Scientists after moving from Perth. Salmon was the driving force behind the group and had founded it in Perth in May 1978 after the break-up of his first group, the punk oriented Cheap Nasties and subsequently the short-lived Exterminators and Invaders. Blood Red River was a statement of intent. It marked a radical change from the kind of music that the first version of the Scientists had been making in Perth and was a critical intervention in guitar-based rock music in Australia.Indeed, Blood Red River, and the music the Scientists went on to make over the next four years until the group broke up in November 1987, after the release of The Human Jukebox, had international reverberations as a stimulus for the 1990sgrunge movement
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Copyright 2020 Volume editors' part of the work, Jon Stratton, Jon Dale & Tony Mitchell; each chapter of contributor