White Souls in Black Suits

CLOCK DVA :: WHITE SOULS IN BLACK SUITS :: LP / CD :: GREY AREA/MUTE RECORDS :: 2025

Release Date: 5th December 2025 (shipment from 15th of December)
Catalogue Number: DVA1LP

• Strictly Limited Edition Double Grey vinyl
• Includes 12 page booklet available in initial pressings only

Available for first time in over 35 years, Clock DVA’s White Souls in Black Suits – originally released in 1980 as a limited-run cassette on Throbbing Gristle’s Industrial Records – now returns in a newly remastered edition on grey vinyl and CD, reissued via The Grey Area of Mute and expanded with four bonus tracks from the same era.

Led by the visionary Adi Newton, Clock DVA remains one of the most enigmatic and shape-shifting acts to emerge from Sheffield. Their catalogue spans mutant funk, noir jazz, and coldwave electronics, with White Souls in Black Suits, paired with the additionals tracks, offering an insight into the early morphology of their sound. The album features a lineup including Newton (voice, synth, clarinet, bowed electric guitar, and tape treatment), founding member Steven James Turner (bass treatment), David J. Hammond (guitar treatment), Charlie Collins (saxophone, flute & percussion), Roger Quail (percussion), and Simon M. Elliott-Kemp (synth).

Recorded at Cabaret Voltaire’s Western Works studio, the album is loosely structured, largely improvised, and steeped in the influence of Sheffield’s early industrial and goth scene. It evokes a world of surveillance, obsession, and psychological decay a debut that set the tone for Clock DVA’s ever-evolving vision and an essential record of the original industrial era.

Side A.

1. Consent
2. Discontentment
3. Discontentment 2

Side B.

1. Still/Silent
2. Non
3. Relentless
4. Contradict

Side C.

1. Film Soundtrack (Keyboards Assemble Themselves At Dawn)
2. Anti-Chance (feat. Cabaret Voltaire)
3. Brigade

Side D.

1. Cage
2. No. 2
3. You’re Without Sound

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Release Date: 5th December 2025
Catalogue Number: DVA1CD (SOLD OUT)

• CD – card eco pac

Available for first time in over 35 years, Clock DVA’s White Souls in Black Suits – originally released in 1980 as a limited-run cassette on Throbbing Gristle’s Industrial Records – now returns in a newly remastered edition on grey vinyl and CD, reissued via The Grey Area of Mute and expanded with four bonus tracks from the same era.

Led by the visionary Adi Newton, Clock DVA remains one of the most enigmatic and shape-shifting acts to emerge from Sheffield. Their catalogue spans mutant funk, noir jazz, and coldwave electronics, with White Souls in Black Suits, paired with the additionals tracks, offering an insight into the early morphology of their sound. The album features a lineup including Newton (voice, synth, clarinet, bowed electric guitar, and tape treatment), founding member Steven James Turner (bass treatment), David J. Hammond (guitar treatment), Charlie Collins (saxophone, flute & percussion), Roger Quail (percussion), and Simon M. Elliott-Kemp (synth).

Recorded at Cabaret Voltaire’s Western Works studio, the album is loosely structured, largely improvised, and steeped in the influence of Sheffield’s early industrial and goth scene. It evokes a world of surveillance, obsession, and psychological decay a debut that set the tone for Clock DVA’s ever-evolving vision and an essential record of the original industrial era.

1. Consent
2. Discontentment
3. Discontentment 2
4. Still/Silent
5. Non
6. Relentless
7. Contradict
8. Film Soundtrack (Keyboards Assemble Themselves At Dawn)
9. Anti-Chance (feat. Cabaret Voltaire)
10. Brigade
11. Cage
12. No. 2
13. You’re Without Sound

WHITE SOULS IN BLACK SUITS
THE GREY AREA OF MUTE
DVA 1LP

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DVA PERSONNEL
ADI NEWTON:
Voice, EMS, Synthi E, Clarinet, Bowed Electric Guitar, Treated Jou Jouka Tapes.
STEVEN JAMES TURNER:
Bass Treatments.
DAVID J. HAMMOND:
Guitar Treatments.
CHARLIE COLLINS:
Soprano, Soprano, Alto and Baritone Saxophones, Flute, Percussion, Ice and Go Go Bells.
ROGER QUAIL:
Percussion.
SIMON ELLIOT KEMP:
Synth on Brigade, Cage, No2 and You’re Without Sound.
WORDS:
A. Newton.
MUSIC:
ClockDVA.

Recorded at DVAtion Studios on a mobile unit EGA.
Engineered by Jon Mills. This album was compiled from 15 hours of improvisations, no overdubs.
Special thanks to Richard H Kirk, Stephen Mallinder and Christopher Watson of Cabaret Voltaire for mix and collaboration on AntiChance.
Thanks are also due to Throbbing Gristle For giving us the Time.

This recording was originally released as a C60 cassette on Industrial Records IRC31 [MC][UK] 1980
Original cassette came with a 10-page A4 Booklet, facsimile included.
Sleeve redesigned Adi Newton with layout Paul A. Taylor.
Remastered at Alchemy London.