Blueprints for a Blackout

by The Ex

Blueprints for a Blackout cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: March 1984
  • Label: Pigmeat
  • Country: Netherlands
  • Length: 1:06:02
  • Community rating: 3.97/5 from 7 ratings

Artists on this release: Jon Langford, Dolf Planteijdt, Cobie Laan

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Pushing far beyond their anarcho-punk origins, the Dutch collective drastically expanded their instrumental palette, incorporating marimbas, accordions, and scrap metal percussion. The densely layered, polyrhythmic album features politically scathing lyricism criticizing consumerism, warfare, and state control. It represents a monumental leap in the band's ongoing mission to fuse radical leftist ideology with fiercely experimental rock structures.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, rhythmic, anarchism, conscious, war, repetitive, experimental, DIY, dissonant, political, guitars, abrasive

Tracklist

  1. Streetcars Named Desire/Animal Harm (Medley) (02:39)
  2. Blueprints For A Blackout (03:53)
  3. Rabble With A Cause (02:19)
  4. Requiem For A Rip-Off (02:52)
  5. Pleased To Meat You (04:16)
  6. A Goodbuy To You (03:38)
  7. The Swim (01:47)
  8. Boohoo (02:28)
  9. U.S. Hole (02:41)
  10. (Not) 2B Continued (01:09)
  11. Grimm Stories (04:52)
  12. A Plague To Survive (05:22)
  13. The Rise Of The Dutch Republic (03:53)
  14. Kidnap Connection (02:16)
  15. Fire And Ice (04:41)
  16. Jack Frost Is Innocent (02:53)
  17. Love You Till Eh (02:47)
  18. Food On 45 (03:17)
  19. Scrub That Scum (08:19)

Credits

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