Noise » Who remembers Live Skull around here? Not many people, if we except the specialists of a New York scene of which Sonic Youth and the Swans were the noisy ambassadors. Like Sonic Youth, Live Skull relied on two furious guitarists, an incendiary bassist and a blacksmith drummer. Before releasing a new album at the end of the spring, the Manhattan gang (seriously overhauled) reissues a remastered version of Don’t Get Any On You, its masterpiece. This live, captured in the dampness of the CBGB club, recounts the New York of the 80s with the same relevance and the same radicalism as the Velvet Underground, two decades earlier. Everything burns here before the band emerges from the rubble Pusherman, Curtis Mayfield’s blaxploitation hit. What audacity! JPB
Live Skull, Don’t Get Any On You, Bronson Recordings.
