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    Devo- Hardcore Vol 2 2xLP

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    Devo- Hardcore Vol 2 2xLP
    Devo- Hardcore Vol 2 2xLP
    SKU: sv025lp.rvr
    Band/Title: Devo
    Label: Superior Viaduct
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    Price: $29.99
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    DEVO’s Hardcore documents the group’s beginning as prepunk outcasts in the fertile Akron, Ohio, underground rock scene. Spawned at the nearby college of Kent State, site of the infamous May 4 Massacre, DEVO formed as a conceptual art project armed with the radical philosophy of de-evolution. Brothers Mothersbaugh (Mark, Bob and Jim) and Brothers Casale (Jerry and Bob) along with drummer Alan Myers soon whipped up an otherworldly brand of "devolved blues” that could hold its own alongside the beatnik groove of 15-60-75 (a.k.a. The Numbers Band) or the primal rock poetry of The Bizarros.


    Recorded on various four-track machines and in tiny studios, basements and garages between 1974-1977, Hardcore reveals their strikingly clear vision: rock ’n’ roll stripped bare of its collective cool and jerked back into propaganda fit for post-modern man. It’s no surprise that these transmissions would soon catch the eye and ear of Brian Eno, who later produced their landmark 1978 debut album. Noisy synth, strangled guitar chops and a primitive rhythmic thud power the early DEVO sound. Threaded beneath it all are lyrical themes of post-McCarthy paranoia, middle-class ephemera and DEVO’s long-running topic of choice: sex, or lack thereof.


    Few moments in pop music history can match the grinding, pent-up energy of "Mongoloid” and the spastic bounce and sputter of "Jocko Homo” (two anthems presented in their earlier and superior versions here). Cult favorites like "Mechanical Man” and "Auto-Modown” make Volume 1 essential listening.


    Superior Viaduct and Booji Boy Records are proud to present DEVO’s Hardcore to a new generation of spuds, lovingly packaged with Moshe Brakha’s stunning cover photography. As David Bowie said in 1977, DEVO is indeed "the band of the future.”