Standing oddly alone amid a sea of hip-hop come Fugazi, fronted by Ian MacKaye formerly of Minor Threat who shares guitar and vocal duty with Guy Picciotto. What we get is some proto-grunge style alt-rock, most notable in the final track on the album (Shut The Door). Not only is this one of the outright hardest tracks in the album, the movement between quieter sections driven by the bassline (Joe Lally) backed by a simple drum beat (Brendan Canty) and sudden explosions of grungy guitar or screamed vocals (or both) sets the grunge standard, but also makes the music very compelling, pulling the listener along with it.
There’s a loose theme of anti-consumerism throughout the album, typified by track titles such as Greed, or Merchandise that sums up the album’s thesis in one repeated line - “You are not what you own”.
It gets a little repetitive by the back half; once you’ve heard a few of their tracks you’ve kind of heard them all, but it did make a nice change from hip-hip for a short while (although, oddly, that made it also feel quite out of place). This feels like a very short entry compared to some recently, but there's not much else I could think of to say.
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