Rudimentary Peni
Death Church
Digitally remastered edition. The words legendary, seminal, and classic get thrown around at will these days, but
Rudimentary Peni's debut album is all of them. Recorded over two days at Southern Studios by John Loder and originally
released in 1983 by Crass off-shoot label Corpus Christi, Death Church showed a band moving away from the urgency of
their two early 7" singles and into their own realm. Creating a template that bands have been trying to replicate ever
since, while ticking all the boxes to become a genre-defining album. Iconic artwork, a unique sound and their own
lyrical universe. All merging seamlessly. Sonically the album is full of Nick Blinko's extraordinary vocals and equally
remarkable guitar, Grant Matthews' big meandering driving basslines and Jon Greville's tight and relentless drum work
which together made something intricate and hard hitting, with a sequence that makes the 21 songs on the album flow
perfectly. Visually, the album is every outsider art lover's wet dream. A six-panel poster sleeve with every inch
covered in Nick Blinko's claustrophobic black and white line drawings, while lyrically the songs deal with madness,
religion, death, and questioning humankind from a dark poetic place rarely found in any art form.
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Format
CD - 1 disk
Release
18-02-2022
Label
Item-nr
565064
EAN
0000000000000
Availability
Not in stock