# Post-punk

Big Black's Atomizer is a true full-length album released in 1986, featuring the band's best-known song, 'Kerosene,' and its most controversial work, 'Jordan, Minnesota.' The album is a line-straddling, industrial-meets-nascent-noise-rock force to be reckoned with, and it belongs in the collection of anyone with more than a passing interest in this genre.

Songs About Fucking was the final release of Big Black, a band consisting of two guitarists, a bassist, and a drum machine. The album was the heaviest, most lyrically poignant, and hardest-rocking of all Big Black titles to date. It was a big influence on the growing 'aggro' and 'post-hardcore' corner of indie rock that would soon be the focus of the Amphetamine Reptile and Touch and Go Records in the late ’80s and early ’90s.

Big Black's Pigpile is a rare and incredible live album that documents one complete show at London’s Hammersmith Clarendon during the band’s final tour. The album captures the band at the height of its powers, with many of the twelve live tracks being better than their studio counterparts. The lineup includes a drum machine, and the album features a mix of post-punk, noise rock, post-hardcore, and industrial rock.