Husker Du – Metal Circus 12"Husker Du Metal Circus 12" "A five song EP bristling with energy and pummeling guitars, Metal Circus is the first indication of Hsker D's greatness. With these five songs, the band shows more invention, skill, and melody than it did over the course of a full album with Everything Falls Apart, and both Bob Mould and Grant Hart emerge as significant songwriters. While they both stay within hardcore conventions on Metal Circus, their songs illustrate

"25 years later

Gentleman Jesse – Lose Everything lp

is a dark heavy steam train ready to derail

Calvin Johnson -styled country croons

very skronky

spitting delivery made these cutting lyrics have appropriate force as well as an intelligence that showed that these songs had more than just a cursory reading to them

the amazing psychedelicized Go-Go troupe manages to cram their hypnotic surrealistic soul-party vibe onto improbably-sized-for-their- task 12-inch vinyl discs

Chunky and jagged early Helmet-style riffs are combined with the groovy heaviness established by bands such as Quicksand

d-beat and booze throughout this raw mayhem

Not in vain Raul and Ruben also play in Tokyo Sex Destruction

The Rent Boys

but at times