Public Image Limited managed to avoid boundaries for the first four years of their existence, and ‘Second Edition’ is undoubtedly the apex. It's a hallmark of uncompromising, challenging post-punk, hardly sounding like anything of the past, present, or future. The dense pulses of Lee Perry's productions fuelled their creative fires -- but what they achieved with their second record is a completely unique hour of avant-garde noise. Its tones have sent miasmic reverberations through a much broader scope of artists and genres. For instance the Sex Pistols wouldn’t exists if it wasn’t for this Public Image Limited album.
