The Bolshoi “Lindy’s Party” 1987. Beggars Banquet. Industrial goth, post-punk and highly danceable, Lindy’s Party was The Bolshoi’s second LP (or their third if you count the 1985 mini-album Giants). For whatever reason I never listened to The Bolshoi in the 80′s, though I certainly listened to their contemporaries and bands they gigged with like The Cult and Lords of the New Church (and though I’m not sure if they ever toured with Love and Rockets, I’d compare The Bolshoi’s sound with them, too).

Lindy’s Party has a big, glossy 80′s sound with lots of keyboards, bordering at times on synthpop, courtesy of newish member (’85) Paul Clark. My top tracks are the industrial-dance “Auntie Jean,” the hook-ladened “Please,” the Rio-era Duran Duranish “Swings and Roundabouts,” the jangly Smiths-esque “She Don’t Know,” and “T.V. Man” which cleverly nabs snippets of dialogue, film titles and soundtrack soundbites from Clint Eastwood’s catalogue. I also really like “Barrowlands” which is creepy in a carnival funhouse Siouxsie and the Banshees way and provides an appropriately gothic break to Lindy’s (dance) Party.