Index / Black Album (Tape)

Description

Comes with a five-panel insert / Limited edition of 300 copies.

1967/2018 Jim Valice and Valord Records. All rights reserved. 2018 Lion Productions, LLC under exclusive license from Jim Valice and Valord Records..

1967-USA

Format: Cassette Tape

#Ref: Lion CS-102

Release date: 2018

Release notes

“In the mid 1960s, Detroit Michigan was a thriving industrial city. It was at the edge of a cliff, however. The great ethnic diversity in the inner city was a brewing powder keg of civil unrest. This, coupled with a disillusioned population struggling to make some sense of a questionable war in the rice paddies of Vietnam, set an uneasy and troubling tempo for the future. Still, there were pockets of communities in the Detroit area where things were good and economic life was vibrant. The Grosse Pointes were such communities. It was on the outskirts of this political and racially tense era, in the affluent suburbs just outside of the city of Detroit, that Index was formed.

The music of Index has been lauded by music heads for decades, and with good reason: it is bizarre, atmospheric, and ‘home-made’ (in the best of all possible ways); the band has a druggie sound, with songs full of feedback and fuzzy guitars, hazy guitar riffs and loud rhythms. Hidden amongst the echoing canyons of sound there’s some snotty post-punk attitude wrapped up in that trippy velvet fuzz; a wonderful bleak sound, both droning and murky, the atonal side of late 1960’s rock that would leave the most lasting impression on those who would eventually become punk, post-punk…

Tracklisting

A.1 Eight Miles High A.2 Israeli Blues A.3 John Riley A.4 Turquoise Feline A.5 Rainy, Starless Night

B.1 Fire Eyes B.2 Shock Wave B.3 You Keep Me Hanging On B.4 Feedback