Rudimentary Peni - Farce *Pre-Order

Release Date Friday 29th September 2023
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.

Rudimentary Peni - Farce

Punk pioneers Crass continue their vinyl reissue series, re-pressing
their limited releases by adjacent artists through Crass Records, in
association with One Little Independent. The series, including over
twenty bands and solo artists recorded at the legendary Southern
Studios and produced by Penny Rimbaud, continues with two more
historic pieces from the Crass Records catalogue; ‘Farce’ by
Rudimentary Peni and ‘Can’t Cheat Karma’ by Zounds, out
September 29th.

Rudimentary Peni were a British punk band formed in 1980 emerging from
the London anarcho scene. Lead singer/guitarist Nick Blinko was
notorious for his witty, macabre lyrics and dark pen-and-ink artwork,
prominently featured on all Rudimentary Peni's albums. They recorded
their first EP in 1981 released on Outer Himalayan. The band played their
first London show the same year with Flux of Pink Indians and
Subhumans. The ‘Farce’ EP was released on Crass Records in 1982.
Rudimentary Peni stopped performing in the mid-80s after bassist
Matthews was diagnosed with cancer. After a 4 year hiatus, they recorded
‘Cacophony’ (1988), a sonic tribute to seminal New England horror author
H.P. Lovecraft. The band continued to record and release material into the
21st century, including the album ‘Pope Adrian 37th Psychristiatric’ (1995)
and the EPs ‘Echoes of Anguish’ (1998), ‘The Underclass’ (2000),
‘Archaic’ (2004) and ‘No More Pain’ (2008), and maintained a diverse cult
following in the US punk scene. They were namechecked in the
Oscar-nominated Sound of Metal, included in a succession of cult band
shirts worn by Riz Ahmed. Most reissues of their 1980s albums are now
out of print.

Penny Rimbaud remembers of Rudimentary Peni; “They were awkward
buggers, they made an art of it. In a their roudy mix of off-kilter growls of
anguish and savage squeals of pain, they were the precursors of
American hardcore. They set a new standard of existential angst with their
brain-storming acts of aural violence and skull-breaking falls from grace.
Hitting the nail fair and square on the head, they had it made, and it was
bad, bad, bad which, of course, made them super good. Love 'em or leave
them, Rudimenary Peni didn't give a toss. They were in for the kill, and
damned nearly made one. Listen at your own peril”.

Track listing
Sacrifice
Cosmetic Plague
Subdued violence
Only Human
The Bile Ball
Farce
Bloody Jellies
Mice Race
Defined by Age
Zero Again
Bubble

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