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Format: LP
Label: Got Kinda Lost Records
Year: 2021
Media Condition: New
Sleeve/Cover Condition: New
TRACKS:
A1 Blind Faith
A2 Article Two (The Handgun Song)
A3 Depression
A4 Love And War (Alternate Version)
A5 War Was Raging On
B1 Non-Surgical Lobotomy
B2 Breathe In Deep
B3 Paranoid Song
B4 Destitute
B5 Another Day
Originally released ca. 1985.
All vocals and instruments: Dale Jenkins
Taking DC DIY to another level, and falling neatly in the gap between the loud fast rules of DC hardcore and the scene's post-punk renaissance, came this outsider one-man-band mid-80s gem.
Undesirable Elements is a loose concept album of sorts, from the sympathetic pen of an innately skilled commentator. The album displays polemical disdain for the behavior of humans, insular views, and blindly moving forward on simple suggestion, while carrying a keen eye into the many textures of the mindscape of humanity.
Jenkins's direct, intensely personal and lyrically sophisticated material, combined with his charged attack, is in a realm all its own. Jenkins's lyrics are nearly cinematic, like bite-sized scripts, or character vignettes, filled with wizened, introspective and radicalized perspective. The self-contained home-recording maverick was searching, sensitive, subversive, topical, yet several steps from the soapbox.
Label: Got Kinda Lost Records
Year: 2021
Media Condition: New
Sleeve/Cover Condition: New
TRACKS:
A1 Blind Faith
A2 Article Two (The Handgun Song)
A3 Depression
A4 Love And War (Alternate Version)
A5 War Was Raging On
B1 Non-Surgical Lobotomy
B2 Breathe In Deep
B3 Paranoid Song
B4 Destitute
B5 Another Day
Originally released ca. 1985.
All vocals and instruments: Dale Jenkins
Taking DC DIY to another level, and falling neatly in the gap between the loud fast rules of DC hardcore and the scene's post-punk renaissance, came this outsider one-man-band mid-80s gem.
Undesirable Elements is a loose concept album of sorts, from the sympathetic pen of an innately skilled commentator. The album displays polemical disdain for the behavior of humans, insular views, and blindly moving forward on simple suggestion, while carrying a keen eye into the many textures of the mindscape of humanity.
Jenkins's direct, intensely personal and lyrically sophisticated material, combined with his charged attack, is in a realm all its own. Jenkins's lyrics are nearly cinematic, like bite-sized scripts, or character vignettes, filled with wizened, introspective and radicalized perspective. The self-contained home-recording maverick was searching, sensitive, subversive, topical, yet several steps from the soapbox.