OFF- the first four eps.

click here to grab OFF!'s lp the first four eps....

keith morris of circle jerks and black flag fame has formed a little hardcore punk supergroup......OFF! these four eps compiled by vice records would've made my list had i found the album a week or two earlier......

to quote a rare time i agree with pitchfork these days......"First Four EPs crams 16 tracks into just over 17 minutes; the thing's packed so tightly, an extra second here or there could feel like one too many. This is lean, propulsive hardcore, played just as it would've been in L.A. circa 1981. The live-in-a-room recording lets you all but hear the sweat drip on the mic...."

or in other words, it's like henry rollins never joined black flag or the circle jerks kept up the good fight.......

it's early 80s hardcore that sounds relevant and fresh now....... unlike the dated cliches most of the punker kids are playing nowadays.....

but i guess if you were there at the outset, when punk was the new thing, it wasn't so hard to think outside the box...... keith morris pulled off one of the years most addicting records, not by reforming his old band and recording a lame new lp.......but by writing catchy fast classic punk songs......

i wish there were more keiths in the music industry.........

you need this album if you like punk. i promise