BRAILLE PARTY "Welcome to Maryland" LP-HarDCore/KFH/KBD

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TEST PRESSING -- Like New/unplayed

Because of the strength of the US dollar at the time, the record was actually manufactured in the UK and mastered by Mayking Records Ltd.  So, as odd as it may seem, as indicated by "A Porky Prime Cut' scratched into the run on groove, this pressing was indeed cut by the legendary British record cutting engineer George "Porky" Peckham who most notably mastered vinyl for the Beatles, Led Zeppelin and Genesis.

Braille Party - "Welcome to Maryland" LP  -- Fountain of Youth Records  FOY 011(1984)

Tracks: Welcome to Maryland / Who's Patronizing Who / Six / Wo Wo Wo / Visiting Dignitaries / Ice Cube's Chance / Evil / Bulldozer / Gemma / Five // Everyone Loves Denise / Let it Burn / Seven / Free Enterprise For Ya / Eight / Truer Words / Gilligan / Two / Over My Dead Body / Halt! Who Goes There? / Braille Party



They could have been DC's answer to Husker Du...

"I'd be simplistic to compare this combo to the HÜSKERS, but suffice to say that they both play extremely fast pop music. At that point the comparison ends, as BRAILLE PARTY play very cleanly, though they don't sacrifice a lot of power for doing so...just a lot of raunch."
-Tim Yohannan (from Maximum Rocknroll #28, September 1985)

"… and then there are bands who would just leave you wondering, how the fuck they managed to pass through the music circus unnoticed. BRAILLE PARTY from Maryland had a couple of tracks on two comps (“Bouncing Babies” and Flispside Vol. 2?) and this LP and that was it. Never-heard-of-agains of the finest sort, although this LP has so much potential, it’s scary. Three fine young men who obviously only needed to pick up their instruments and it turned out to be, well, forgimme the term – art.
“Welcome to Maryland” is a mixed bag sui generis. Combining seemingly simplistic harmonic structures, heavily relying on the great voices of the lads (Bassist and mastermind Matt Riedl and drummer Gerry Rolfe; Lou Gigger hits the 6 strings of mayhem and destruction) with short outbursts of Hardcore-speed, without ever sliding into the lands of Hardcore. This LP has been freaking me out since I first bought it and it’s always been a divider: Few would get infected by it, most would ignore it, except maybe for the fast songs (like the overwhelming “Over my dead Body”). I’m not sure, and I’d love to hear about that from one of the band members if they ever come across this, whether I’m right or not decoding the whole concept of this as pure lustful irony, making around with styles, throwing it all together and just enjoying themselves delivering the goods. Every song comes off so lighthandedly, as if it was nothing, giving the album a phenomenal easy yet sad atmosphere. THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS would always come to my mind when trying to describe BRAILLE PARTY. Of course, a slight psyched 60s surf feeling gets through too. Bloody hell!
So if yer into HC, dude, don’t download the full LP here. For the sake of learning something from this site, give it a few spins, will ya, maybe starting with the B-side songs which are a bit faster generally. And don’t let the first and arguably weakest song, “Welcome to Maryland”, discourage you. “We must think of Sysphus as a happy man”, you know..."
--Good bad Music for bad, bad Times(October 2007)

*****

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