Fugazi - Steady Diet of Nothing LP (silver vinyl)

Steady Diet Of Nothing confirms Fugazi's inexhaustible repertoire of musical drama, enriched here with new expressive forms that concentrate in depth on the possibilities of American hardcore. The Sonic Youth-esque "Reclamation" and the maelstrom of wild distortion and tribal pulsation on the title track hover in hallucinatory climates, at once defying hardcore convention and staying rooted in the techniques of rock. Sounds go adrift into an ocean of brutality, much in the vein of Big Black.