Is This Real?

Is This Real? is the debut studio album by the Portland, Oregon-based punk rock band Wipers, originally released on vinyl in January 1980 by Park Avenue Records. The album's release was preceded by the band's Better off Dead EP. The album shows a more immediate Punk sound than the band's successive records, which would take on longer, Post-punk styles and structures. The album was little noticed upon its initial release, gaining a small cult following. Today it is regarded as a classic, seminal record in Pacific Northwest punk, and was later listed by Kurt Cobain as one of his top 50 albums of all time. The album produced a single and associated EP, Alien Boy, and would follow up the album in 1981 with Youth of America.