Memory Span Makes a Memory Spin

I've got an article up at PopMatters on forgotten postpunkers The Lines, who were akin to a combination of A Certain Ratio and Soft Boys. Memory Span is a collection of their singles, but the band also has two fantastic LPs worth downloading (they're long out of print), which includes some fascinating things (and a few misses) like potentially the only fully backwards-masked track that even sounds remotely good and one track on Ultramarine so oddball spacey-feedback-oriented that it almost seems to anticipate A.R. Kane (or at the very least the rest of the 4AD roster).