听起来不朋克的朋克之声

Item: The Process of Weeding Out
Author: SonicCarsick

SonicCarsick 评论 The Process of Weeding Out

2020-02-28 17:05:30

无意间翻到篇博客，评价这张听上去跟「经典黑旗」大相径庭的唱片。"It’s one of the least punk sounding thing they’ve ever done, but one of the most punk spirited." 个人觉得评价非常恰当，顺手贴在这里：

Never was a Black Flag release more perfectly named than The Process of Weeding Out. If Greg Ginn wanted to weed out the people who didn’t respect Black Flag’s change in sound, this EP was gonna do it. (And, as Ginn’s screed on the back cover implies, the EP was also some kind of “fuck you” to censorship.) Like side B of 1984’s Family Man, it’s instrumental and it sees Ginn exploring his most avant-garde, jazz-influenced, and psychedelic tendencies. Two of the songs are nearly 10 minutes long, and they’re among the band’s most atonal, dissonant work — they’re closer to classic Sonic Youth than classic Black Flag but even out-there for Sonic Youth’s standards. As with Family Man, this EP isn’t as fun to listen to as most of Black Flag’s material, but it’s awe-inspiring to hear them pulling off such difficult music. And I say props to them for doing it. It’s one of the least punk sounding thing they’ve ever done, but one of the most punk spirited.