Aspirations

X, “Aspirations” (Ugly Pop reissue, 2014; origina release 1979)
Not the X from L.A., but the Australian one, and in their own way just as great (and influential). Rumbling drums, bass rubbery and immense like the bassist was using live boa constrictors for strings, guitar crashing through in brilliant shards, all in service of punk rock songs from three people blowing a hole through a faraway place that was just like everywhere else in the ‘70s, brutal and burned-out and chaotic and ridiculous, but with weird hiding places where you could find fun or even transcendence.
Try 1/ 1, 1/ 4, 1/ 4, 2/1
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