MISSION OF BURMA - Vs. (Standard Edition) LP punk blues Barrett forgoes the post-industrial trappings

Barrett forgoes the post-industrial trappings of Have A Nice Life in favor of an intimate singer-songwriter approach

such as the Celtic-Frost-at-16-RPM narcoplunder of “Cadaver Blood

and a song set inside an actual bodega (‘Shiny New Model’)

SOREX released just a single 7” EP - three tracks of no-fi

This is his follow up and early indications show the same jangling soft pop at play

MISSION OF BURMA - Vs. (Standard Edition) LP punk blues Barrett forgoes the post-industrial trappingsIncludes d l code. Easily one of the best US post punk records, hardly reducible to post punk, even. The thing that separates these guys from legions of later dickaround noise rockers is that, much like prime era Sonic Youth, they had a real talent for uncanny hooks, an intelligent and purposeful use of so called "noise" (i. e., dissonant and atonal music), tons of variety in their music, and interesting, often haunting lyrics.