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Big Black - Atomizer (1986 Touch And Go)
noise rock \ post-hardcore \ industrial rock \ post-punk
"After several years and a handful of EPs that felt like albums, Big Black released Atomizer in 1986 as its first True full-length. Like the barely posthumous Songs about Fucking that followed the next year, Atomizer is Big Black at the height of its two-guitarsplus-bass-plus-drum-machine powers, forging a line-straddling, industrial-meets-nascent-noise-rock force to be reckoned with. The album features the band’s best song, “Passing Complexion”; its best known song, “Kerosene”; its most controversial work, “Jordan, Minnesota” (about a 1983 child pornography ring busted in said town); and generally the harshest lyrical subject matter Big Black had yet to offer (with handy liner notes explaining each song’s little fictional foray into the American underbelly). It inexplicably cracked the Billboard 200 at No. 197, and it belongs in the collection of anyone with more than a passing interest in this book." - Gimme Indie Rock
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