Debris - s/t

High voltage early doors art punk straight outta Oklahoma but bearing very strong Cleveland aesthetics, proto No-Wave noise-confusion and Stooges-informed primitive urges. First released in 1976, Static Disposal has been in and out of a print with varying degrees of availability a few times (good luck locating an original if you're not a billionaire), and opening track 'One Way Spit' has a little notoriety for having opened one of those great Soul Jazz punk comps over a decade back, but it's always a pleasure to hear this kind of art-blasted action no matter how familiar you might be or might not be with it. Comparisons to Pere Ubu, MX-80 Sound and The Girls come obviously enough, though you can also hear their proximity to the pre-punk era, namely the theatricality of Roxy Music, a trait they share with the equally great but mostly overlooked Bizarros. Even with the Roxy influence and having made it on to the NWW list (perplexing that Stapleton had found a way to hear this when he was something like 20 years old), this is the kind of punk that only really ever comes from America, the no-town sound of the neighbourhood's best weirdo gang. You can timestamp, but that's really an infinite thing. 
 
FFO: Pere Ubu, The Girls, Devo, MX-80 Sound, Styreenes, Bizarros