ARMISTICE

 

Why the continued fascination with "old" punk? Is it pure nostalgia for an era of music (and community, and activism) that so many of us simply weren't around (or alive) for? Are the sounds on their own simply enough to pull in listeners from the future? Are we intrigued by the rarity and the mystique? Or is it that we want to see ourselves in these bursts of pure and desperate energy....and we want to think of ourselves as visionaries like we think they were? Or maybe we just fucking love punk. And when someone tells me about a punk band from Wales who recorded only one batch of songs in 1981, I get fukkn excited. They don't need to be the best songs I've ever heard....because they are new songs and I'm hearing them for the first time. And maybe "Do We Need This" is barely listenable on this tape and maybe "Fight For Freedom" isn't even on here at all but holding a piece of 40 year old punk is still cool as shit. 

All of the cuts here have appeared on compilations, though mostly not until the Bullsheep Detector series on AntiSociety came out in the '10s. No enough can be said about a band who can (successfully) make a so-called song out of a primitive assemblage of rackets like "Conservate & Liberate," but ARMISTICE is reall all about "Anarchy" on repeat all day every day....trust me. 

ARMISTICE