SOUND OFF

NEW YORK—How’s your memory? Can you recall the ragged end of the ’70s, the apprehension anyone with brains felt at Reagan’s election, and the uncertainty inherent in the arrival of Orwell’s decade? The Sound do. Although many of their contemporaries have mutated into dance fodder—Joy Division as the increasingly homogenized New Order, the Cure most dramatically, and the Comsat Angels least sucessfully—the Sound have remained remarkably true to their sound and vision.