Government Issue
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LA RECENSIONE

In the in-between years between the last piece of post-punk meat, sold in the horror market, and the resurgence of rock, thanks to Nirvana, where the flesh of a dead one (rock) was shoved into the mouth without questioning and stuck to the palate, only removed with great effort using a dry tongue, the Government Issue present themselves in this "isolation stew" with blows of leftovers from the fridge and cupboard.

The barely mourned Stabb's band, which included a couple of Minor Threat veterans (in periods before this You), always catered to a strictly hardcore audience, while from 1985 (The Fun Just Never Ends), the evolution towards post- became more active: the Husker Du records and Rites Of Spring's early "emotions" were certainly important moments for their transformation.

Stabb sings like a seasoned Vanian or an explosive Curtis, while the guitars, although distorted, never exceed the acidic wall of a Zen Arcade but resolve into a pop-core à la Warehouse (this while the two records were released in the same year), the rhythm section already looking towards the future awaiting American music (Robbins, the bassist, will be the singer for Jawbox), navigating between emo and the hardcore outbursts of bands like Naked Raygun and the same Minneapolitans.

Technical tests of Alternative Rock, in a world where few still felt emotions.