''The E.P.s of R.P.'' is a compilation of the
anarcho-punk
Anarcho-punk (also known as anarchist punk or peace punk) is ideological subgenre of punk rock that promotes anarchism. Some use the term broadly to refer to any punk music with anarchist lyrical content, which may figure in crust punk, hardcor ...
band
Rudimentary Peni
Rudimentary Peni are a British anarcho-punk band formed in 1980, emerging from the London anarcho-punk scene. Lead singer/guitarist Nick Blinko is notorious for his witty, macabre lyrics and dark pen-and-ink artwork, prominently featured on a ...
, released on LP in 1987 on
Corpus Christi Records
Corpus Christi Records is a British independent record label started by some of the members of Crass and their recording engineer and business partner John Loder, to release records by artists who did not perhaps fit in with some of the stric ...
.
It contains both of the band's first two 7-inch EPs, ''Rudimentary Peni'' and ''Farce''. In 1994, it was reissued on CD on the band's own Outer Himalayan Records.
Tracks 1-12 were taken from the ''Rudimentary Peni'' 7-inch EP, recorded at Street Level in 1981 and released in August that year. Tracks 13-22 were from the ''Farce'' 7-inch EP, recorded at Southern Studios, London, in 1982, engineered by
John Loder, produced by
Penny Rimbaud
Penny Lapsang Rimbaud (born Jeremy John Ratter, 1943) is a writer, poet, philosopher, painter, musician and activist. He was a member of the performance art groups EXIT and Ceres Confusion, and in 1972 was co-founder of the Stonehenge Free Fes ...
and Rudimentary Peni, and released on
Crass Records
Crass Records was an independent record label that was set up by the anarchist Punk rock, punk band Crass.
Overview and history
Prior to the formation of Crass, Penny Rimbaud and Gee Vaucher had published their creative works via their own D ...
in July of that year.
Critical reception
AllMusic
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wrote that "these releases were throttling and brash, shamelessly self-explanatory, and fond of intense speed shifts as they tottered over a pre-grindcore method of handling near chaos."
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Trouser Press
''Trouser Press'' was a rock and roll magazine started in New York in 1974 as a mimeographed fanzine by editor/publisher Ira Robbins, fellow fan of the Who Dave Schulps and Karen Rose under the name "Trans-Oceanic Trouser Press" (a reference to ...
'' thought that the record contains "some mini-masterworks of alienated vitriol."
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Track listing
# "Media Person"
# "Him Hymn"
# "Blind Dogs"
# "B-Ward"
# "Crazy Chain"
# "The Gardener"
# "Teenage Time Killer"
# "Hearse"
# "Dead Living"
# "Black President"
# "Tower of Strength"
# "Play"
# "Sacrifice"
# "Cosmetic Plague"
# "Subdued Violence"
# "Only Human"
# "The Bile Ball"
# "Farce"
# "Bloody Jellies"
# "Mice Race"
# "Defined By Age"
# "Zero Again"
# "Bubble"
Personnel
*Jon Greville - drums
*Grant Matthews - bass
*Nick Blinko - vocals, guitar and art
References
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Rudimentary Peni albums
1987 compilation albums