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Hamburg, Germany's Xmal Deutschland impressed Ivo with an "incredibly raw" demo tape whose live power was never completely captured in the studio. Nonetheless, the spiky intensity of the four-woman, one-man band proved compelling enough on their debut album Fetisch, released in 1983.
Two subsequent singles - "Qual", a different take on the album's lead track, and "Incubus Succubus II", an extended version of Xmal's pre-4AD debut - captured the attention of BBC radio DJ John Peel and a... More