The Raincoats - London, UK

Biography

In 1979, The Raincoats helped shape the timeless notion that punk is what you make it to be - an act of raw expression, not any one sound. Their anarchy was poetic. The group’s debut album ‘The Raincoats’, which Kurt Cobain named “wonderfully classic scripture”, was released 42 years ago by Rough Trade at its radical beginnings, setting a crucial precedent for feminist work within a DIY context.

The Raincoats

• OUR 3RD ALBUM IN THE KRS30 PINK SERIES OF SPECIAL PRESSINGS TO HELP CELEBRATE KILL ROCK STARS 30TH ANNIVERSARY
• HAND NUMBERED WITH A STICKER OF AUTHENTICITY
• LIMITED TO 91 COPIES

“Within a minute, they seem to have trashed every female stereotype in rock and roll… I was amazed” – Greil Marcus, ‘Rolling Stone’ 1980.

The Raincoats, seminal post-punk band, ‘godmothers of grunge’ and inspiration to a generation of riot grrrls, formed in the late 1970s when Gina Birch met Ana da Silva, becoming one of the most important underground bands Britain has ever produced. Ana and Gina, along with the various musicians who flowed in and out of the band’s many formations, created a sound that, while inspired by punk and rock music that had come before, was uniquely and uncompromisingly powerful and female, and which has held a fascination over all those lucky enough to have stumbled across it.

-Nazmia Jamal

1. Fairytale in the Supermarket
2. No Side to Fall In
3. Adventures Close to Home
4. Off Duty Trip
5. Black and White
6. Lola

7. The Void
8. Life On the Line
9. You're A Million
10. In Love
11. No Looking

Cat. No. KRS658
Release date: October 13th, 2009

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