Big Black - Songs About Fucking (1988)

I'm still discovering this band, but I wanted to pay forward what I was able to dig up: so far, only this, which is loud, crunchy, slightly underproduced and aggressive.



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The Pop Group - Y (1979)

This group is among my favourite aural challenges, oh man. A man named John Dougan described this particular album much better than I could via All Music Guide & Amazon:

"Emerging in the late-'70s post-punk era, this militant gang of leftist radical politicos from Bristol, England, specialized in a funk-driven cacophony of sound that was abrasive, strident, and ultimately very exciting. Railing against Margaret Thatcher's Tory government, the state of pop music, racism, sexism, etc., the Pop Group were not the easiest band of the early post-punk era to listen to, but those who made the effort were in for an interesting melange of primitive rhythms and avant-garde guitar racket." (Dougan 2008)

And there you have it.



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Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing (2008)

Though they've only got one record to their name at the moment, I love this band dearly. Their sound is reminiscent of all the bands in the the creepy, dark underbelly of the 1970's that produced so much of my favourite music, only their sound is a little more aggressive, crunchier. I saw them live the other night, and it blew my head off. (They upstaged Mogwai hardcore, in my opinion.)



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Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain (2005)

"UTTERLY UNRULY" is the best way I can think to describe this album, which, for me, defines the really uncomfortable cross-section between math rock and metal. It's noisy, screechy and fairly unpredictable despite its occasionally repetitive structures. Think Hella only louder, faster, more jagged. In short, it's an aural curbstomp- worth it, I think.



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