Somewhere out there in this crazy world of ours, there’s a teenage kid who’s freakin’ his mom out, not by playing Marilyn Manson or My Dying Screamo Wizard or the new (I can’t even say it, I can’t) Eminem record, but by cranking up Glenn Branca’s weirdo guitar works and makin’ the walls of his post-war duplex in suburban Illinois shake. And that kid — let’s call him “Hunter,” because isn’t every teenage boy named Hunter now? — that kid Hunter is really, really fucking jazzed about this 1980 solo Branca album Lesson No. 1 getting a fancy vinyl reissue.
Originally released on 99 Records after Branca left Theoretical Girls, Lesson No. 1 was reissued on CD back in 2004 but is only now seeing a vinyl reissue. Complete with the original 1980 tracklisting, the 2LP reissue also comes with a one-sided 12-inch of the contemporaneous Branca track “Bad Smells,” which features Hunter’s idols Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore. The pimped-out Lesson No. 1 will be released by Superior Viaduct on January 21, and you can preorder it today.
• Glenn Branca: http://www.glennbranca.com
• Superior Viaduct: http://www.superiorviaduct.com
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