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Essential Logic - Wake Up

When a review of Essential Logic’s Beat Rhythm News compared to it to Frank Zappa, Lora Logic got hold of a Zappa lp, but failed to see the connection.  When another notice insisted on an unmistakable Captain Beefheart influence, she picked up a copy of Trout Mask Replica, and found a kindred spirit.  When a third writer, desperate for a handle on a singer who phrases scattershot lyrics off the madly jerked riffs of her saxophone, declared Essential Logic the harbinger of a beatnik revival (“beat rhythm news,” you see), Lora Logic dutifully bought herself a Jack Kerouac novel, which she was unable to finish.

-Greil Marcus, “It’s Fab, It’s Passionate, It’s Wild, It’s Intelligent!”, Rolling Stone, July 24, 1980