Dischord US レコード& CD

Review: Originally released in 2001, The Argument would serve as the sixth and final full-length from Washington D.C. post-hardcore visionaries Fugazi (led by Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat and Guy Picciotto of Rites Of Spring). Released in tandem with their Furniture EP, the project continued the band's further experimentation and internal dissection of a subgenre and style they were creating, curating and bastardising in real time. Making extensive use of cello and piano, while weaving in more unhinged spoken word diatribes, the project falls in line with the latter-day art punk of Red Medicine and End Hits, while providing a bookended finale of incomparable intensity, equally disgusted and concerned with the war-torn world at large and man's constant inability to find better means of facilitating change. Often cited as not only the band's best work but a monolithic cornerstone of the scene at large, this repress naturally lands courtesy of MacKaye's own Dischord Records and arrives on artwork complimenting blue marbled vinyl.

Review: Originally released at the start of 1982 via Dischord Records, Flex Your Head would serve as a sampler of some of the most vital hardcore punk acts in the Washington D.C. scene at that time, with several of the contributing bands already broken up and moved onto new groups who also make appearances. For instance, The Teen Idles had already disbanded and formed Minor Threat at this point (with both being fronted by Dischord labelhead Ian MacKaye), while the sampler would also mark the debut or sophomore release for a number of the featured artists, including Untouchables, Government Issue, Iron Cross, and Youth Brigade, whereas the material provided by Red C, Artificial Peace and Deadline, are the only known recorded output of these short-lived yet pioneering groups.