Rudimentary Peni – Farce

Your favorite band’s favorite band. This seven inch feels like an LP, but leaves you wishing you had more. Unrelenting, hardcore punk that’s weird enough to keep you on edge, but melodic enough to tap your toe. A must listen.

Six fold out has an amazing poster. Good luck finding a cover without pin holes.

Great release, correction released in 2021. Great press on vinyl.

Gotta say I disagree with the other reviewers. After receiving this 12” I gave it a listen and immediately felt it sounded different. A side by side comparison with the 7” showed quite a bit of difference. I strongly prefer the original 7” sound, which gives the perfect onslaught experience, with the vocals well-balanced with the guitar. Call it compressed if you will, I think it sounds great. This 12” version feels stripped of that early 80s hardcore sound, like a modern engineer’s updated version of how they think it should sound. I’m not sure why you need clarity and sonic isolation when you’re being hit in the face with punk psychosis.

I see the reissue listed as an LP and being sold as LP prices close to $30 instead of being sold as a 12" like the other Crass reissues at $20. Is this being marketed as an LP from the label?

The mastering is VERY LOUD! Sound very good, it's Rudimentary Peni in "Hight resolution". I own the original Ep and the CD of both Eps and I can hear details I've never heard before. There may be a slight distortion on the song "The Bile Ball" at the end on the back vocals but nothing more. The cover art and interior pictures are excellent. No background noise and not warped. If you have a cheap turntable with a $5 ceramic needle, it is very possible that it will not be able to play this record correctly with such loud mastering.

Excellent reissue! This has been one of my favorites by Rudimentary Peni since I bought the original 7" in 1985. It always bothered me how thin sounding it was by cramming 11 tracks on a 7" at 33 1/3 RPM. This 45RPM 12" finally gives the songs the low end they deserve and it's nice and loud without being overly compressed/limited. I was expecting just a standard 12" jacket with an insert, but One Little Independent/Crass Records actually reproduced the original foldout sleeve for the 12"! The pressing is very quiet, inner sleeve is a plastic lined paper sleeve for added protection. Really classy reissue all around!

This is being reissued as a 12" soon on OLI/CRASS

"pay no more than 80 pence"
"11 For Sale from CA$52.21"

Hard hitting, more ideas in this release than some bands pack into a whole career. Some people may find this a cure for Seasonal Affective Disorder, others may want to play it just to rage back at the increasingly unequal world. Beyond all of this it is a fine slice of vinyl, the finest, with crisp full sounding production considering so many colossal tunes are packed in tight. If morse code were music it would sound like this, incessant, message dotted and dashed, the thrash is way beyond Wire and Clash, a new lab, a new creation, a rolling panorama opening vistas of punk few would think could possibly exist, Probably the malfunctioning evolution of the Damned's Smash it Up, Now go work it out....you, yeah you.

copies only seem to turn up in america so presumably a promo for u.s. distros and radio. pressed later than the7``>sound quality issues maybe??