The Slits show the way after punk

September 1979: Number 20 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of indie musicBy the time the Slits (above), a rare all-woman band, recorded their debut, they had outgrown the bulldozing clatter of their earlier Peel sessions for something altogether more intriguing. Produced by Dennis Bovell, Cut cooked up a restless, offbeat art-pop from fractured guitar, ever-shifting rhythms and the joyful polyglot patois of singer Ari Up, all itchy energy and fizzing with invention. Return of th...

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