Minny Pops

Often stern, frequently humorous, and sometimes both at once, Minny Pops are post-punk experimentalists who have combined dark wit and jagged electronics throughout their lifespan. Led and fronted by Wally van Middendorp, they crept out of Amsterdam's underground Ultra movement in the late '70s, and released their debut 7" and album, Drastic Measures, Drastic Movement, before the end of the decade. Into the '80s, they became the first Dutch band to record a session for John Peel's BBC Radio 1 program, and continued to record inscrutable if engrossing material for Factory and F...