"Looking back at South Africa's post-punk musical landscape of the 1980s, one is tempted to casually dismiss the decade as a bizarre and often unpalatable period because of the often intensely disturbing sociopolitical undertow. Out of these uneasy and often dim times, however, sprang some of the most compelling, original, enduringly evocative, and thought-provoking contemporary music to have been conceived in South Africa. Some of this alluring music is encapsulated here in Via Afrika's eponymous debut album of 1983."
