MX-80 SOUND Crowd Control LP 1981 avant art-punk Gizmos

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MX-80 Sound -- Crowd Control LP

Original 1981 promo release on Ralph Records (catalog # MX 8102).

Trouser Press Review: This weird post-metal art band originally from Bloomington, Indiana (from the same scene that spawned the goofy Gizmos) centers their sound around Bruce Anderson's slashing, trebly guitar riffing and Rich Stim's deadpan, often indecipherable, mumble. As a five-piece (with two drummers), they twice released a seven-song 7-inch EP (subtitled "Hard pop from the Hoosiers") on local labels, impressing Island Records enough to sign them. But the resulting Hard Attack never came out in the States and attracted little attention aside from some critical raves. A move to San Francisco (shedding one drummer in the process) brought them to the attention of that city's Ralph Records, home of the Residents and other offbeat types.

Out of the Tunnel may well be MX-80's high-tide mark, particularly on the concurrent single, "Someday We'll Be King" b/w "White Night"; on these two sides, their formula of convoluted, breakneck melodies, cross-fed musical genres and Anderson's white-hot soloing nears critical mass.

Crowd Control doesn't quite reach the same lofty heights. With more strict adherence to "metal" (in the Blue Öyster Cult sense) form, the songs here merely replace much of the white-hot intensity of Tunnel with volume. The results range from epiphany ("Obsession: Devotion" and "Face of the Earth") to nails-against-chalkboard (like a take on the theme from Brian DePalma's Sisters.)

Tracks:

A1 Face Of The Earth 3:46 A2 Crowd Control 2:39 A3 Why Are We Here 2:55 A4 Obsessive Devotion 4:21 A5 More Than Good 3:48 B1 Night Rider 4:25 B2 City Of Fools 2:30 B3 Theme From Sisters 2:11 B4 Cover To Cover 2:44 B5 Pharoah's Sneakers 2:47 B6 Promise Of Love 4:38

CONDITION: Cover VG+ / Vinyl NM-   excellent shape, stickers and promo stamp on cover, vinyl is extremely clean.

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