Hard Attack

by MX-80 Sound

Hard Attack cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: October 1977
  • Label: Island
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 38:16
  • Community rating: 3.96/5 from 8 ratings

Artists on this release: John Williams, Steve Hoy, Andrea Ross, Rich Stim

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Predating much of the formal post-punk movement, Indiana's MX-80 Sound delivered an incredibly bizarre, wildly dissonant slab of heavy art-punk. 'Hard Attack' violently collides Bruce Anderson's frantic, aggressive noise-rock guitar heroics with Rich Stim's deeply sarcastic, intensely manic vocal delivery, resulting in a wonderfully quirky, highly anxious avant-garde barrage.

Genres

Descriptors: noisy, avant-garde, dissonant, experimental, rhythmic, abrasive, eccentric, guitars, saxophone

Tracklist

  1. Man on the Move (3:54)
  2. Kid Stuff (2:58)
  3. Fascination (1:43)
  4. Summer 77 (3:02)
  5. PCBs (1:55)
  6. Crushed Ice (3:09)
  7. Tidal Wave (3:13)
  8. Checkmate (1:45)
  9. Facts Facts (3:09)
  10. You're Not Alone (3:40)
  11. Civilized-Demeyes (5:15)
  12. Afterbirth-Aftermath (4:26)

Credits

  • MX-80 Sound - primary artist
  • Dale Sophiea - backing vocals [background vocals], bass
  • Dave Mahoney - backing vocals [background vocals], drums
  • Mark Bingham - backing vocals [background vocals], producer
  • Art Jones - design [album design]
  • Mark Hood - engineer
  • Barry Bloomfield - graphics [graphic engineering]
  • Bob Richert - graphics [graphic engineering]
  • Glenn Travis - graphics [graphic engineering]
  • Bruce Anderson - guitar, illustration [line drawings], written-by
  • Kim Torgerson - photography by [photos back]
  • Dick Mits - photography by [photos front]
  • Eddy Gorecki - plated by
  • Rich Stim - vocals, rhythm guitar, organ, saxophone [sax], written-by
  • Andrea Ross - written-by
  • Steve Hoy - written-by
  • John Williams - written-by

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