Birthday Party, The: Junkyard (Vinyl LP + 7"/CD)

A dark, twisted masterpiece from 1982, this menacing record was the culmination of the band's time together & takes their art/psych/blues/punk fusion to outrageous heights. Junkyard contains some of the Birthday Party's most complex & forward thinking tracks, including such firm fan favourites as 'She's Hit', 'Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow)', 'Release The Bats', 'Dead Joe' & the title track itself.

These songs possess some of the most vivid & brutal imagery from Cave, & strikingly original band arrangements that radiate a strange, scuzzy intelligence while remaining astonishingly visceral & frantically energetic.

2012 reissue.

1. She's Hit
2. Dead Joe
3. The Dim Locator
4. Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow)
5. Several Sins
6. Big-Jesus-Trash-Can
7. Kiss Me Black
8. 6" Gold Blade
9. Kewpie Doll
10. Junkyard

7"

1. Release The Bats
2. Blast Off!