Tragic Figures (40th Anniversary Expanded Reissue)

Welcome to the world's first (and only) post-punk-industrial-trancepsychedelic-surf album! The fact that it took us so many adjectives to describe Tragic Figures lets you know just how unique of an album it is. Sure, there are echoes of other artists, like krautrock legends Can, post-punkers Public Image Limited (Savage Republic opened for PiL on their 1982 West Coast dates), avant-garde guitar players like Glenn Branca and Rhys Chatham, scrap metal industrialists Einstürzende Neubauten, and Bay Area sludgecore nihilists Flipperbut really, this unlikely product of (mostly) UCLA undergrads sounds like no other record before or since. And only adding to Tragic Figures' mystique are its graphics, which displayed band co-founder Bruce Licher's trademark letterpress printing and featured a UPI photo of rebels getting executed in Kurdistan, the ghostly images sharing space with a red lettering that gave the album's title in script that roughly translated "tragic figures" into Arabic (which, in turn, had the unexpected effect of drawing more Iranian and Middle Eastern people to their shows)! Tragic Figures wasn't just a bold musical statement; it was an objet d'art in its own right. For its 40th anniversary edition, we at Real Gone Music worked with Bruce Licher to preserve and expand on the magical, talismanic quality of the initial release. The original album has been remastered from the original tapes by Mike Milchner at Sonic Vision, while both the CD and LP editions boast an extra disc of largely unreleased rehearsal recordings taped in the bowels of UCLA parking garages, where the band used to practice to take advantage of the extended reverb afforded by all the concrete surfaces (imagine being an unwitting undergrad happening upon this unearthly din coming out of nowhere)! Richie Unterberger's liner notes feature interviews with band members Licher, Philip Drucker, and Jeff Long, and the CD and LP come with the original cover graphics expanded into a six-panel digipak and a gatefold jacket pressed in heavyweight "chipboard" paper stock, respectively. Clear your calendar and set aside a couple of hours to listen to Tragic Figuresyou won't end up where you started.

Disc 1
1: When All Else Fails
2: Attempted Coup: Madagascar
3: The Ivory Coast
4: Next to Nothing
5: Exodus
6: Machinery
7: Zulu Zulu
8: Real Men
9: Flesh That Walks
10: Kill the Fascists!
11: Procession

Disc 2
1: Attempted Coup: Madagascar
2: When All Else Fails...
3: Kill the Fascists
4: Real Men
5: The Vampire Bites
6: Next to Nothing Weirdness
7: Thee Three Preserves
8: Sliding Into Arabia
9: As It Was Written
10: Procession (Into the Light)
11: Exodus

Number of Discs: 2

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