Suicide/Alan Vega

Suicide/Alan Vega Anthology (213CD)
by Joshua Brown

Suicide/Alan Vega Anthology, is an overview of the New York punk/performance art iconoclast’s work from 1977 to the present. The most striking of Vega’s material lies at either end of his own unfinished timeline. “Jaxson Gnome,” taken from his latest solo LP, Dujang Prang, is a highly disturbing piece of confrontational experimental sound and cynical poetry, that reeks of sweaty bedsheets after waking from a nightmare of Urban Hell. “Ghost Rider,” from Suicide’s ’77 debut, is a classic electro-garage spit in the eye of mass culture, which was covered by Henry Rollins on his first solo LP, Hot Animal Machine (“America, America is killing its youth.”).