Following in the steps of pseudonymous punks like Rat Scabies and Iggy Pop, Whitby joined Poly Styrene‘s X-Ray Spex and transformed into Lora Logic. And when she was ousted from the group just before the 1978 release of the band’s classic debut Germ-Free Adolescents, she took full advantage of punk’s promise and began making her own noises– sounds that echoed the influx of influences that infected the British post-punk scene. But where many of her contemporaries found their music continually celebrated in critical and fanatical circles 25 years after the fact, Logic’s music was left to wallow in dusty records bins with only a few scattered admirers…
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