Fugazi Red Medicine (Vinyl)

Fugazi have never been quite as one-dimensional as their critics would have it. On their first full-length album, 1990s Repeater, the D.C. quartet reinvented the sound of American hardcore. They wailed their emotionally charged political diatribes in between sturdy, lurching rhythms, Zeppelin-style changes in tempo and dynamics, and dissonant, distorted guitar textures.

Even so, for noncultists, the groups defiantly anticorporate preachiness often overshadowed the music; think Fugazi and you think ideology more than rocking out. 1995’s Red Medicine takes great pains to shatter these preconceptions, and the results are stunning.

Fugazi have branched out musically and chilled out lyrically; theyve added jazzy piano, dub-style bass and percussion, psychedelic guitar and even a snaky Middle Eastern-style melody to their palette.

Instead of cramming angry diatribes down your throat, the group pulls back on several tunes, gently whispering its tales of the apocalypse through wavering sound effects. Fugazi even allow the music to speak for itself on a couple of instrumentals.

Vinyl, LP, Remastered, Reissue

Tracklist:
A1 Do You Like Me
A2 Bed For The Scraping
A3 Latest Disgrace
A4 Birthday Pony
A5 Forensic Scene
A6 Combination Lock
A7 Fell, Destroyed
B1 By You
B2 Version
B3 Target
B4 Back To Base
B5 Downed City
B6 Long Distance Runner