The Hammer Party

by Big Black

The Hammer Party cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 1986
  • Label: Homestead
  • Country: United States

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Combining the group's first two brutal mid-1980s EPs—'Lungs' and 'Bulldozer'—alongside the 'Racacer' 12-inch, 'The Hammer Party' maps the ferocious origins of Steve Albini's legendary noise-rock outfit. Big Black famously utilized a relentless Roland TR-606 drum machine to back their incredibly harsh, metallic guitar scraping and deeply misanthropic lyrical narratives. The compilation laid the extreme, uncompromising groundwork for the heavy industrial-punk aesthetic they would perfect on 'Atomizer'.

Genres

Descriptors: noisy, rhythmic

Tracklist

  1. Steelworker (4:14)
  2. Live In A Hole (3:00)
  3. Dead Billy (3:27)
  4. I Can Be Killed (4:27)
  5. Crack (3:54)
  6. RIP (3:39)
  7. Cables (2:40)
  8. Pigeon Kill (1:47)
  9. I'm A Mess (1:55)
  10. Texas (4:02)
  11. Seth (3:32)
  12. Jump The Climb (2:58)

Credits

  • Big Black - primary artist
  • Chris Gehringer - lacquer cut by

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