Reissue of the Week: Maťkovia’s 1982 – 1986 (Expanded)

Made in secret in the shadow of Soviet Normalization, after decades as a cult object Maťkovia's debut album has been newly reissued and expanded. Jakub Knera tells the extraordinary story of the project's leader Martin Burlas ‘Normalization’ in Czechoslovakia in the 1970s and 1980s was paradoxical: rather than a return to normality, it in fact meant renewed state control over society, culture, and…