NO ALTERNATIVE – DYING IN THE USA '78 TO '89

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NO ALTERNATIVE – DYING IN THE USA '78 TO '89Mandatory collection of material, mostly ranging from '78 '80, from this short lived but absolutely crucial SF punk outfit. Similar to their peers Avengers, No Alternative never released a proper LP in their time, but this posthumous collection of single, comp and unreleased tracks stands as a powerful document of a top rate punk outfit in their prime. No Alternative bridged a gap of sorts between the 70's stew of new wave and punk and the more

Less than a year after the release of Piper

and the Foxboro Hot Tubs

No expectations

Fast becoming one of the underground’s hottest names to drop

and a year later was awarded with the Polar Music Prize in Stockholm

drum machine

The contract also stated that Lee could not mention this publicly

The final song on the album is a short instrumental version of "Seven Seas of Rhye"

An unrelentless record

with a “very sad” (or Bien Triste) take on post-punk or indie-flavored darkwave (or whatever)

Could this mark a move towards a more mature GEE TEE

despair and optimism - "Nin-Gen" provides a destructive