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Big Black - Songs About Fucking (1987 Touch And Go)
noise rock \ post-hardcore \ industrial rock \ post-punk
"With guitarist Santiago Durango deciding to enroll in law school, Big Black (two guitarists, a bassist, and an increasingly well-programmed drum machine credited on record sleeves as “Roland,” after its manufacturer) determined that Songs about Fucking would be its final release. Following the combo’s strongest effort to date, Atomizer (1986), Big Black’s swan song was no tossoff. Rather, it would guarantee founder Steve Albini’s first musical project (of an eventual three) a dignified and powerful exit. Without belying Albini’s electronic influences (Roland is front and center, and the LP included a cover of Kraftwerk’s “The Model”), Songs about Fucking was the heaviest, most lyrically poignant, and hardest-rocking of all Big Black titles to date (an EP, a live album, and a compilation would follow) and a certifiably essential part of any record collection, especially those that trod indie rock’s heavier paths. In fact, Songs about Fucking would prove 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." - Gimme Indie Rock
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