Alan Vega- StationLabel: Digging Diamonds Reissued 2018, originally released 2007 Alan Vega spent five years making this, his sixth solo album. The Suicide frontman certainly didn't show any signs of calming down. Within the first few seconds of Freedom's Smashed you're immersed in a blistering soundworld, dominated by caustic waves of white noise and static before Vega's familiar doom prophet vocals barge in accompanied by a tirade of punishing electronic beats. As

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Trainspotters will find it interesting that beats later destined for the likes of Wildchild and Percee P were made some years before those albums saw release

Power of Equality

Dark Paradise

Other live debuts on Way Down in the Rust Bucket include “Surfer Joe and Moe the Sleaze

Zen Buddhist practice

Brand New Cadillac

Boys Who Died in Their Sleep

driven by a Top 40 charting single and extensive touring there

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Phair also collaborated with The Matrix on four songs: "Why Can't I

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