SST RECORDS
SST Records is an American independent record label formed in 1978 in Long Beach, California by musician Greg Ginn as a record label to release material by his band Black Flag. Music writer Michael Azerrad wrote, “Ginn took his label from a cash-strapped, cop-hassled store-front operation to easily the most influential and popular underground indie of the Eighties”. (More from Wikipedia)
Following their move to the well-regarded SST Records label, Slovenly released their second album, Thinking of Empire that is described by Allmusic as a “flowering of art-punk influences and California punk mindset that is one of the great lost classics of the 1980s”. The album that I picked up, Riposte is considered to be nearly as good and heralded a subtle shift in their style by the addition of acoustical guitars and a more abstract sound that continued on their next two albums.
(November 2010)
