Friday, May 15, 2020

Pere Ubu: Datapanik In The Year Zero (1978)

I can not overstate just how awesome and groundbreaking this record is. It's phenomenal.

From Discogs:

An early anthology containing several tracks from the band's first four singles--except for "Untitled", an early version of "The Modern Dance" that was previously unreleased. (As for the songs not on this compilation, "The Modern Dance" and "Street Waves" were included on the "Modern Dance" album, while "Final Solution" and "My Dark Ages" wouldn't be reissued until 1980.) "Heart of Darkness" is edited for time.

The brief ascription fro Allmusic says this about Pere Ubu:

Influential art punk band whose experimental sound harnessed self-destructing melodies, scattershot rhythms, and industrial-strength dissonance.

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