Bastards

German first press 1990. Record spotless. Minor wear to sleeve.
Monticello is quite possibly one of the most brazen pieces of ear-bashing you could wish for, Perry can’t resist adding “massively entertaining” after words like “ugly” and “brooding”. The NME’S Edwin Pouncey adopted a more wordy approach as you may expect from that rag back then, calling Monticello “A red raw punkadelic mashdown that revives the spirit of early Big Black without having to resort to imitation ”.