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Speed

by Crain

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Bringingmykids
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Bringingmykids I remember the 1st time I met Jon Cook. It was summer 92 at a Shelter show. He approached me with a box of Crain " speed " cassettes, but I was trying to buy a Shelter shirt. Years later we would become better friends and I would spend hours at his Moms buying records from his personal collection and talking shit. Jon, I miss you my friend!!! I hope you have a chair waiting for me at the Time out lounge. I'll bring some drums! Favorite track: Kneel.
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jim_fuego This is what I love Bandcamp for: digging out lost classics from bands I never heard about at the time. This is brilliant post-hardcore, consistent throughout, and sounds great :) Favorite track: Proposed Production.
anabolic squirrel
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anabolic squirrel They must have been great to see live. They play their instruments with a fury from the very start of the album and don't let up. Rhythm section is adept at tempo changes. Quality 90's hardcore that holds up well even today. Favorite track: Proposed Production.
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Kneel 07:06
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King Octane 02:11
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Ribcage 04:22
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F*ckerman 05:07
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Stabilizer 04:35
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Blistering 02:12
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about

Crain formed in early 1989 from the ashes of Cerebellum, an art-punk ensemble that featured a then-teenaged Drew Daniel (Matmos, Soft Pink Truth) on vocals. Picking up where the nervy Cerebellum had left off, Crain made frantic, impassioned music that resonated for audiences who were otherwised bemused by contemporary punk rock. Twelve years after its original LP-only release, we are reissuing Speed on CD for the first time, with four bonus tracks of rare and unreleased material. Recorded by Steve Albini in 1991 on an eight-track in his basement - and remastered from the original tapes by John Golden in 2004 - Speed fits somewhere between the positive punk anthems of Fugazi and the gritty wall-of-noise melodicism of Nirvana. Throw in the occasional spoken-word vocals a la The Minutemen, and you have a record that was every bit as important as Slint's "Spiderland" in directing the quick evolution of underground American rock music. Crain's influence is wide-reaching and evident on countless records by everyone from James Murphy's now-defunct pre-DFA projects (Pony, Speedking) to widely popular and hugely influential acts like Shellac and Helmet. To call this Speed reissue "long-overdue" is quite an understatement.

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released April 1, 2005

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