Double LP
Remarkable it's taken Dark Entries this long to get round to reissuing the debut album of LA queer synthpunk iconoclasts Nervous Gender - has an act ever been more suited to a label? Their time has been well spent to be fair, extending the original 1981 album into a deluxe two disc set featuring a host of extra material that i'd presume amounts to a fairly definitive representation of the band. The name and album title are doing a lot of the heavy lifting for me here, a clear roadmap for exactly where the band were heading, brick on the accelerator, hands most certainly not on the wheel. The band moved in the same circles as Alice Bags and the Screamers, and the association makes a lot of sense given their shared interests in extremes, primitive electronics and general atonal fuckery. And while presence in the LA scene makes sense of a great deal of their output (think Factrix, Minimal Man and the like), i'd also like to think of this as post-DEVO pop music. Or to put it another way, what pop music might have shifted into had the Devolution been properly televised. Absurd, anti-establishment, defiantly and radically itself, Nervous Gender feel kinda ageless for it. You'd kill for another like them right now.
