Position Normal are an English musical duo, formed in London in 1986, consisting of Chris Bailiff and John Cushway.
[3] The duo originally worked as Buggersod, supplementing their music with video projections as well as "mashed potato flung into the audience and socks hanging from the ceiling," according to writer David Stubbs.
[3] In a review for Uncut, Stubbs credited the album with "uncover[ing] old cardboard boxes of stuff that, even in this supposed era of kitsch, have remained repressed and untouched.
[3][6] In his book Retromania, Simon Reynolds describes Position Normal as a progenitor of the 2000s hauntology genre, which is concerned with "lost futures" and abandoned cultural material.
[5] Writer Joseph Stannard, who helped popularise the term "hauntology", included Position Normal on a 2013 compilation album based on his Brighton club night The Outer Church.