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WIPERS - Is This Real? TAPEUnquestionably Portland's most well loved punk group, THE WIPERS formed in the late 1970s and in 1980 released their debut LP, Is This Real? twelve songs of stabbing, jittery guitar, snapped vocals, and unabashed teen angst. Full of desperation and yearning, the LP has stood as a blueprint for wretched youth for over 25 years. In the early 1990s Is This Real? was given mainstream attention when Nirvana covered two tracks off the record and Kurt Cobain

Cathartic satisfaction

on the faces of all six nonboys

a composition like “Unsetting” offers a nonchalant graceful funk drift with reverberant hand claps

A soft layer of lo-fi noise covers everything up like a thin and comfortable blanket

on the other hand

Released in 1977 - right after the punk-rock breakdown - the compilation made way for a revolutionary statement supporting the newborn counterculture

the afterglow—one of the true delights of this record

sometimes wet with mud

A reissue LUNGFISH's fourth full-length

while simultaneously racing towards the future head on

and have been consistently releasing the most forward-thinking work in heavy music

Blades went on to record the score in full