Massacre - Killing Time (1981)

It can be very hard for an artist to keep evolving throughout his career. At the beginning of one's career, the music that he or she is making is often the blueprint for the rest of the career to come. Take the Rolling Stones for an example: they were highly successful with their 'blues done by white men' music, but totally lost their relevance in the mid-70s. So, what an artist has to do is to let go of his roots (the music he's best known for) and try something new.

Best example I could give is Fred Frith. Fred Frith is a guitarist/multi-instrumentalist from the UK. He started the band Henry Cow (a very influential band that created the genre 'rock-in-opposition', a sort of more elemental form of progrock), then went on to form Art Bears, Massacre, Skeleton Crew and Naked City. He has made music in all sorts of genres and his solo records are immensely creative as well. This album, the only album Massacre made until their reunion in 1998, is one of the pillars of the no-wave genre although Fred Frith had absolutely nothing to do with the scene. And that's what makes this album so great. It provides a completely open-minded view into the genre no-wave, made by outsiders. Wild album.

And I'm positively sure that the math rock-bands have listened to this very carefully as well, and to some extend I hear some Massacre-influence in Foals' first album.

not the person we knew
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