Hard Attack

Digitally re-mastered and expanded two CD edition of the Avant-Garde band's debut album. Hard Attack has been mastered from the original analog tapes for the first time since 1977 and remixed by the band. This definitive version includes 19 previously unreleased tracks, documenting the band from their early days to the moment they relocated to San Francisco and signed to the Residents' Ralph Records label. The singular and staggering innovation of MX-80 Sound still harkens to Rock's future potential. MX-80 Sound is one of the real oddities in American music. Their debut album, Hard Attack released in the UK on Island Records, found little-to-no audience in the States upon it's release in 1977, yet remains a key document of the mid-'70s proto-punk zeitgeist. Hailing from Bloomington, Indiana, MX-80 Sound is lead by guitarist Bruce Anderson and defies simple classification with relentless riffs, dual drummers and vocalist Rich Stim's absurdist prose and dizzying sax. Assimilating the avant-rock of Captain Beefheart and conjuring the ghosts of Albert Ayler, MX-80 Sound evokes what free jazz would sound like if born in Bloomington.