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Thursday, March 17, 2022

Bruce Russell & Luke Wood - (2019) Visceral Realists LP

 

VHF Records – VHF 146

Debut LP by the New Zealand duo of Bruce Russell (Dead C, Handful of Dust, etc) and Luke Wood. Visceral Realists is a high-concept commentary on the state of vinyl, analogue recording, music culture, art, etc. A 45-rpm bullet of short bursts of free electric sound, the music here is tactile and rough but not “noise music.” Russell and Wood play over loops of scratchy records, with their guitars and electronics surging to get over the wall. Russell’s guitar sound from his vintage transistor amp and anti-style is instantly recognizable from countless classic Dead C sides, but the tracks are more painterly than recent DC epics – these are celebratory vignettes of thoughts – singles, if you will. “There’s more information encoded in an old record than in a new one. Every crack, every pop, a tree ring of recovered time. A life-time. Time again for life. Like the revenants, come from the grave warm; and once again walking. But still just blood in a bag. The glow of the vacuum at the heart of a market-place – where art goes to fetch bread. That is how we’ve warmed our hands for this work. To know we are alive”

Black Flag - (1981) Damaged

 

SST Records – SST CD 007



Black Flag - (1982) Everything Went Black

 

SST Records – SST-CD-015

Black Flag - (1983) The First Four Years

 

SST Records – SST CD 021
168.26MB FLAC files

Black Flag - (1984) My War

 

SST Records – SST CD 023
223.54MB FLAC files

Black Flag - (1984) Slip It In

 

SST Records – SST-CD-029
252.86MB FLAC files

Black Flag - (1985) In My Head

 

SST Records – SST CD 045

Black Flag - (1985) Loose Nut

 

SST Records – SST CD035
225.22MB FLAC files

Black Flag - (1986) Who's Got The 10½?

 

SST Records – SST CD 060
474.11MB FLAC files