Savage Republic Savage Republic - Tragic Figures (2-LP, colored Vinyl, Ltd.)

(Real Gone Music) 22 tracks, colored vinyl in red, limited to 2000 copies, LP set includes full album of unreleased performances from that time and a leaflet with detailed notes by Richie Unterberger.

Welcome to the world's first (and only) post-punk-industrial-trance-psychedelic-surf album! The fact that we needed so many adjectives to title Tragic Figures shows how unique this album is.

Sure, there are echoes of other artists, like Krautrock legends Can, post-punkers Public Image Limited (Savage Republic opened for PiL on their 1982 West Coast dates), avant-garde guitarists guitarists Glenn Branca and Rhys Chatham, junk metal industrialists Einstürzende Neubauten, and Bay Area sludgecore nihilists Flipper - but the bottom line is that this record has no equal.