Avengers

AvengersIn the late '70s, The Avengers established themselves as one of the US's preeminent punk bands. Fusing incisive guitar hooks, explosive rhythms and adolescent venom, the group forged some of the most in your face songs of the era. Their live shows were legendary, playing up and down the West Coast and even blowing Sex Pistols off the stage at the latter's final performance. As Byron Coley writes in the liner notes, "Of the best bands of San

RTJ operate on a singular setting: imagine the silliest

Over what sounds like a synthesized combination of plucked violin and keyboards

Glen Matlock

a guided journey inward towards self-discovery

But through listening

much like some of the bright hits from her debut

Marion fixated on songs and dances from the Iberian Peninsula

[1] becoming the band's second highest-peaking album in the United Kingdom after Autobahn (1974)

despite the criticisms leveled at his later direction (or lack thereof)

Housed in a PVC sleeve

Recent remaster

and they've made records based on microtonal tunings