A truly unique and extraordinary band featuring members of Holland's equally brilliant The Ex, the Dog Faced Hermans play a radically experimental and socially conscious style of post-punk. This is their hardest-to-find LP from the early 90s, a few years before they eventually found some broader distribution on Jello Biafra's Alternative Tentacles label and then broke up. Despite featuring a trumpet and viola at the forefront of their musical attack, the Dog Faced Hermans pack the same punch as bands like Crass, The Ex, Zounds, Chumbawamba, Flux of Pink Indians, Swans, Subhumans, etc. The minimalism and aesthetic is the same as those anarcho-punks but like the Ex adds elements of the No Wave scene and a folk music influence as well, albeit using some very different instruments. Recommended for squatter punks and pretentious avant-garde people alike!
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