#punk

FUGAZI
The Argument
2024 U.S. reissue
Blue Marbled vinyl

Fugazipalooza rolls on!

Sending this one out to @richardemeyers@mastodon.social , who feels this is the most UNDERRATED Fugazi record, and it’s a difficult thing to ARGUE against (pun intended).

It’s definitely the most MELODIC album they ever made. There’s certainly some hooks on this record that are bordering on pop-like, and the songs are arranged and executed in a much broader way than they’d attempted before. More sculpted and cohesive.

“Epic Problem”, “Strangelight”, “Ex-Spectator”, “Cashout”, “The Kill”… these are all amazing tunes.

If the naysayer diehards’ complaints were that it’s “too polished” or “overly pretty and melodic” or that the band was “aging out”, well…

those sound like YOU problems, dudes.

GREAT album, and definitely one of the first CLASSICS of the 2000s for me.

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SVATSOX
Bred In The Bone, Out In The Flesh
1984 Netherlands pressing

NOW we’re getting into the cool shit!

This is dark, blistering Dutch punk from our favorite distant land: the #1980s .

Thick, punchy bass and drums, and that special #80s brand of #postpunk guitar sound.

This band were highly influenced by the British anarcho-punk scene; bands like The Ex, who they’d later do a split cassette with in ‘84 as well.

Although it may sound like the vocals are sung in a foreign language, they’re 100% in English. You can thank the unfathomable thickness of the Dutch accent for that.

Svatsox would eventually evolve into De Kift; a VERY different musical endeavour that would lean heavy into folk, brass band, chanson, and Eastern European vibes.
THAT band’s vocals would go on to be sung in Dutch.

If you like dark, weird, post-punk records, you’ll very much dig THIS though.

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FUGAZI
Steady Diet Of Nothing
2023 U.S. Ltd. Edition reissue
Silver Metallic vinyl

I knew as soon as I put Repeater on yesterday that it would set me off on plowing through the rest of the Fugazi discography.
And here we are.

Repeater’s follow-up, and one of my three favorite Fugazi records.
“Reclamation”, “Stacks”, “Steady Diet”, “Polish”, “Nice New Outfit”… ALL Fugazi bangers.

Nice sounding issue, too.

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