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*Dale Jenkins - Undesirable element (1985)*

 A set of mystifying, tragic and haunting ballads home-recorded in the 80's by Dale Jenkins, who made a few private pressings.It does have beautiful loner vibes. The music consists of fuzz guitars, funky bass lines and groovy melodies that make for a very unique and distinct kind of sound, that is also made "stranger" by Dale's style of singing, some sort of spoken word and the lyrics are somewhat of a downer but with a few quotable lines. Extremely interesting and captivating.

This is a 2020 reissue by GOT KINDA LOST records and it includes a beautiful and informative booklet with excellent notes. 



Here's an excellent excerpt from the booklet :

"Jenkin's lyrics are nearly cinematic, like bite sized scripts, or character vignettes, filled with wizened, introspective and radicalized perspective, Jenkins was searching, sensitive, subversive, topical, yet several steps from the soap box. 

Beyond coming out as gay fairly early in life, having a dedication to social causes, and being a teen-aged metalhead deeply in the throes of a Black Sabbath fixation, little is known about the musician, beyond the bits those few remaining who called him friend or bandmate harness in their memories. ..

... Jenkins' compositions refracted mutant strains of British post-punk through a distinct American underbelly sensibility, broadcasted gnarled bits of proto-punk via in-the-red fuzzed guitars, and additionally reframed the proto- New Wave stylings of Devo..."



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