“Throwing the baby out with the bathwater”, Contrastate’s fifth studio album, was simultaneously released in 1994 as a CD and a limited edition picture disc Lp and 12” set on the labels Functional and TESCO respectively. The album deals with the vacuum in society created by the lack of new alternatives and new ideas, the lack of critical thought and the push to fill this vacuum with an unquestioning subservience to tradition. This release was developed over a long period and so consequently it is a lot more careful and precise in relation to previous releases, yet at the same time also challenging.