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RUDIMENTARY PENI Archaic LP

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(Outer Himalayan)
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DESCRIPTION FROM CRUCIAL BLAST:
  Now reissued on both gatefold CD with sixteen page lyric booklet and 180 gram vinyl in gatefold packaging with a set of six LP-sized lyric cards, a foldout poster and a digital download code.
   Few new releases this year have had me as jazzed as the sudden and rather unexpected surge of re-mastered Rudimentary Peni albums that have been coming out from Outer Himalayan. There's an upcoming reissue of the band's ferocious 2004 EP Archaic coming out in the next couple of weeks that I can't wait to get my hands on, but while we're waiting for that to materialize, we've picked up the second and third Rudimentary Peni albums that came out earlier this summer as part of this ambitious reissue campaign, both of which are pretty much essential for anyone into dark, macabre punk, early death-rock, and occult-obsessed hardcore.
   It would be very hard to overstate just how influential these albums have been on an entire class of bands that followed in their wake, and you can now hear echoes of Rudimentary Peni's spiky, angular punk and Lovecraftian madness lingering on albums from all kinds of hardcore punk, avant-rock and even black metal bands. They have always been grouped in with the early 80's anarcho-punk scene that flourished in Britain, but aside from their early connections with the band Crass (having released their 1982 Farce 7" on Crass Records), Rudimentary Peni had very little in common both musically and thematically with most of the other punk bands that they were associated with. Their music was so much darker and more enigmatic than almost anything else happening in British punk at the time, with much of the unique sound and vibe coming from front-man Nick Blinko, a visionary lyricist and artist who has struggled with mental illness and long periods of hospitalization throughout the bands entire career, and who brought his increasingly deranged visions of disturbing deformed characters, rampant paranoia, and withered horrors to the bands music, drawing influence from the works of H.P Lovecraft and the occult. For fans of dark, outré punk rock, the Rudimentary Peni records are absolutely essential; all three of the band's albums are crucial slabs of twisted, menacing rock, and even their EPs are minor masterpieces of macabre weirdness. They've never put out a bad record, and I actually think that their more recent stuff, while heavier and different from their classic early records, is just as amazing as their earliest, most legendary recordings. So far, we've gotten reissues of both Peni's second and third albums, Cacophony and Pope Adrian 37th Psychristiatric and both are absolute classic albums of malevolent weirdo punk, each one given a gorgeous reissue treatment that includes newly designed gatefold CDs and deluxe LPs that include complete lyrics and lots of Blinko's amazing obsessive pen-and-ink artwork.
   It was with 2004's Archaic EP that Rudimentary Peni fully shifted their sound into the menacing, pounding punk stomp that has dominated their last few records. Like the No More Pain EP that followed, these songs were formed around short, ferocious blasts of heavy punk that for the most part clock in under two minutes, the riffs sounding meaner and tougher than ever before, and Nick Blinko's vocals are deeper, gruffer than they were on the band's classic 80s/early 90s output, his lyrics more morbid (if that was even possible), touching on feelings of abject hopelessness and despair, the inexorable march into oblivion, the act of bodily cremation; macabre subjects that are often sketched out in simple harrowing phrases that Blinko repeats over and over like some kind of obsessive, nihilistic mantra. Tracks like "Lost", "One For All", "The Rain" and the supremely infectious hardcore of "House Of The Void" grind away at their dark, catchy hooks, the bone-rattling bass guitar and buzzsaw riffs featuring a more metallic edge than much of the previous work, while songs like "Mercy Of Slumber" and "The Curse" slow things down a little, offering a dirgier, dirtier heaviness. Sure, it's painfully short at just over sixteen minutes, but Archaic remains some of my favorite music from this incredible band. Recommended.   © CRUCIAL BLAST
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