Name: Tragic Figures (Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition)
Brand: Savage Republic

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

LP-RGM-0955LEC

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Colour

Colour details

Red Vinyl

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Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2022-05-06

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

848064009559

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2 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / red

CD-RGM-1396

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Extended format: No

848064013969

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2 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Savage Republic

Genre US

Experimental

Label US

Real Gone Music

Welcome to the world’s first (and only) post-punk-industrial-trance-psychedelic-surf album! The fact that it took us so many adjectives to describe Tragic Figures lets you know just how unique of an album it is. Sure, there are echoes of other artists, like krautrock legends Can, post-punkers Public Image Limited (Savage Republic opened for PiL on their 1982 West Coast dates), avant-garde guitar players like Glenn Branca and Rhys Chatham, scrap metal industrialists Einsturzende Neubauten, and Bay Area sludgecore nihilists Flipper - but really, this unlikely product of (mostly) UCLA undergrads sounds like no other record before or since. And only adding to Tragic Figures' mystique are its graphics, which displayed band co-founder Bruce Licher's trademark letterpress printing and featured a UPI photo of rebels getting executed in Kurdistan, the ghostly images share space with red lettering of the album’s title in script that roughly translates to "tragic figures" into Arabic (which, in turn, had the unexpected effect of drawing more Iranian and Middle Eastern people to their shows)!

Tragic Figures wasn't just a bold musical statement; it was an objet d'art in its own right. For its 40th anniversary edition, we at Real Gone Music worked with Bruce Licher to preserve and expand on the magical, talismanic quality of the initial release. The original album has been remastered from the original tapes by Mike Milchner at Sonic Vision, while both the CD and LP editions boast an extra disc of largely unreleased rehearsal recordings taped in the bowels of UCLA parking garages, where the band used to practice to take advantage of the extended reverb afforded by all the concrete surfaces (imagine being an unwitting undergrad happening upon this unearthly din coming out of nowhere)! Richie Unterberger's liner notes feature interviews with band members Licher, Philip Drucker, and Jeff Long, and the CD and LP come with the original cover graphics.

Tragic Figures (Expanded 40th Anniversary Edition)

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