Collision Drive: Black Vinyl LP Aaron Frazer Before the coastal dailies and

Before the coastal dailies and culture mags had declared our town an “it city” — before rampant development was putting tall-and-skinny new-builds on every block and courting out-of-towners with mixed-use nonsense and vapid murals

The World’s Biggest Paving Slab

The playing is complex but soulful and inviting

and percolating like rushing water through the genre-fluid production work crafted by the duo’s Emmet Carey

and I hope that when you hear it

Collision Drive: Black Vinyl LP Aaron Frazer Before the coastal dailies andAlan Vegas self titled debut solo album was released in 1980 during the same period Suicide released their second album, Suicide: Alan Vega and Martin Rev. While Suicides label ZE Records was interested in pushing the duo toward a synthetic disco sound inspired by Moroders production on Donna Summers I Feel Love, Vega felt a pull in a different direction. He wanted to dig deeper into the roots of his own sonic identity, fueled by blues, rockabilly,