MX-80 Sound - Hard Attack 2CD 12-inches pushing and pulling to the

pushing and pulling to the drone's internal pulse

framing the urgency of their singles from this period (notably How I Wrote 'Elastic Man' and Lie Dream of a Casino Soul) alongside lengthy rumblings normally restricted to long players

capable of melody and form

even on the occasion when Lepke retuned Sting's hand-turned lute to the obscure Mixolydian mode – by accident

was recorded by the artist himself and issued on Ananda

MX-80 Sound - Hard Attack 2CD 12-inches pushing and pulling to theMastered from the original 1977 tapes (also available in vinyl edition) + 19 unreleased songs from 1976 1978. MX 80 Sound is one of the real oddities in American music. Their debut album, Hard Attack (released in the UK on Island Records), found little to no audience in the States upon its release in 1977, yet remains a key document of the mid '70s proto punk zeitgeist. Hailing from Bloomington, Indiana, MX 80 Sound is lead by guitarist Bruce Anderson