RAPEMAN was formed by Steve Albini after the breakup of Big Black. The band released two 7-inches, a four-song EP (Budd), and the album Two Nuns and a Pack Mule. The album showcased the most forward-thinking, hair-raisingly exciting sound to come out of American post-hardcore until Slint’s Spiderland album. For fans of the more incendiary and visceral areas of indie rock, immersion in Two Nuns and a Pack Mule is obligatory.
# Noise rock
Exploded Drawing by Polvo is a final work of brilliance that showcases the band's trademark guitar work, with drums and bass taking prominence at times. The album is heavier than any other Polvo release and features Middle Eastern intermissions that hold together the proper songs. The album is spellbindingly great and should be put in a rocket or time capsule as the ultimate proof that indie rock could reach perfection. The band reformed in 2008 to release two more amazing albums that pick up where Exploded Drawing left off.
Polvo's unique sound, influenced by Sonic Youth's guitar investigations, is characterized by alternative tunings, Beefheart-ish looseness, pretty hooks, and air-moving heaviness. Their debut album, Cor-Crane Secret, is a powerful, heartfelt, and progressively experimental example of indie rock's natural impulse to shut out the rest of the world and follow whatever feels right. This record is essential for any indie rock, noise rock, post-hardcore, or math rock fan.
"Eucalyptus" is the only full-length album by Pitchfork, a San Diego band that featured Jon Reis and Rick Froberg. The album was released in 1990 and is a mix of post-punk, hardcore, and post-hardcore. It is highly recommended for fans of Drive Like Jehu and other similar bands. The album is incredibly accomplished considering the band members' ages at the time of its conception and recording. The album includes the fantastic tracks "Rana" and "Flatland Farming".
Pain Teens, a Houston-based band, took an industrial path to noise rock through music mostly composed by multi-instrumentalist Scott Ayers. The band's sound was a mix of Butthole Surfers, clanging industrial yet organic rhythms, Blood’s little-girl singing style that told tales of serial killers or other societal ills, plus a strange and memorable poppiness that could cut through it all. Their fourth full-length album, 1992’s Stimulation Festival, is a nightmare world of S&M nastiness and other lyrical deep ends, made engaging by tight songwriting and experimentation with guitar loops, tape manipulation, and other effects-plus the Pain Teens’ best statement of purpose, the must-hear opener “Shallow Hole”-make Stimulation Festival an American noise-rock achievement of the highest order. An added touch comes by way of the great cover of the Birthday Party’s “Wild World.”
U.S. Maple - это группа, которая не вписывается ни в один жанр. Они берут элементы из разных жанров, таких как нойз-рок, мат-рок и шеллаккор, и создают свою уникальную минималистичную музыку. Альбом Talker - это первый альбом группы на Drag City, который не наскучивает и оставляет впечатление. Фронтмен группы, Эл Джонсон, имеет харизматичный эмоциональный вокал с налетом скупой и прижимистой мужской истерики. U.S. Maple - это клондайк такого рода музыки.
The Jesus Lizard's album 'Down' marked a subtle shift towards traditional and accessible song structures while still maintaining their unique sound. This was the last album recorded with Steve Albini and the final title on Touch and Go before the band moved to a major label. The Jesus Lizard's classic Touch and Go material was reissued in 2011 after the band reunited in 2008. Check out their other albums: Head (1990), Goat (1991), and Liar (1992).