Classic og punk reggae. Nothing to do with the four to the floor, chugging guitar-style of punk but then again they almost make the Ramones sound reactionary. I get the impression their performances were ecstatic. From the second you see their name and the album cover you know that these guys are very weird. It always caught my eye as a tween at the record store - breasts! - but it's sort of a trap because you look closer and there is nothing sexy about the photo and actually it's sort of menacing and you wonder WTF they are up to. Are they in a cult? Is this a still from a never-completed o.g. Star Trek episode where they get beamed down to an Amazon planet? Am I going to get hurt? The visuals are very much of a piece with the scratchy guitar, randomish piano, heavy dub drums n bass and pitch optional Teutonic vocals that maybe could be described as Niconic and Ono-informed and within which the entirety of Bjork's career can fit into an insignificant corner. Often I don't really know what's she's singing literally but I feel like I know exactly what she means and I'm like fuck yeah! While at first you're struck by how it sounds so loose and live and quasi competent as to maybe have been improvised by amateurs, this album actually rewards close repeated listening. The creative energy and youthful gumption is fantastic. I think singer Ari Up was 17 or 18 and others were even younger. We really need someone to make an Ari Up biopic. Go read her Wikipedia entry if you aren't familiar with her story. She was Johnny Rotten's misbehaving step daughter, for G-d's sake! No one writing or reading my review here lived a life 1/100th as interesting and uncompromising as Ari Up. Very much consistent with this music. Finally, we have to discuss how part time Slit Neneh Cherry is the step daughter of legendary free jazz pioneer and frequent Ornette Coleman collaborator Don Cherry. You are surely familiar with her massive global hit maybe ten years later, "Buffalo Stance" (based on a sample of "Buffalo Gals" - the unlikely club hit from Malcolm McLaren, the one-time manager of Ari's stepdad Johnny Rotten's Sex Pistols. Weird how everything here is so closely connected! And what's with all the musical step dads?). Neneh was like 15-16 on this record. Anyway, I always related to free jazz and punk rock in similar ways and so these threads coming together seems fitting if not inevitable.