Alan Vega - Collision Drive *Pre-Order

Release Date Friday 23rd January 2026
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.

Collision Drive is Alan Vega’s second solo studio album, originally released in 1981. If his debut laid the groundwork for a raw, minimalist take on rockabilly and blues, Collision Drive expands the palette with a grittier, more layered, and unfiltered energy. Here Vega’s lyrics channel universal themes rooted in his fascination with street life, science fiction, politics, comics, love and the mysteries of the universe. It’s a record that pulses with feeling and rebellion, displaying the full spectrum of human experience and Vega’s evolving vision

Alan was always reinventing himself, creating and refining his mastery of variation while maintaining his own unparalleled and identifiable aesthetic. Sonically, this album is more dynamic than his first. Ditching drum machines for a live drummer, and enlisting a hard rock band to back him, Collision Drive offered a different view of Vega’s artistic vision. The aching punk rockabilly of “Magdalena82” unfolds with a hypnotic blend of guitar slides and frenetic energy, whileVega’s cover of “Be Bop A Lula” transformsGene Vincent’s classic into an aggressively charged, manic howl. Elsewhere, tracks like the hard-driving cosmic rock n roll “Raver” push into psychobilly territory. Vegawas relentlessly innovative, continuously paving new ground

Tracklisting:
1. Magdalena 82
2. Be Bop A Lula
3. Outlaw
4. Raver
5. Ghost Rider
6. I Believe
7. Magdalena 83
8. Rebel
9. Viet Vet

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