Like Magazine and a select few others, The Banshees released more essential music on single sides than most other artists did on all their albums from the same period. Love In A Void traces The Banshees through three stages: original, intermediary – when drummer Budgie joined and the Cure’s Robert Smith filled in on guitar – and terminal, when John McGeogh completed what would be, miraculously, a second essential incarnation of the group led by Siouxsie and Severin. The first fruit of this union, “Israel”, previews the new sound which soon reached maturation on the album Ju-Ju, a superlative rendering of refurbished art-rock for the 80s.