4. SuicideSuicide
It’s one of those records, if you’ve never heard it before and you played it to somebody and said, ‘When was this released?’ They’d probably think it was now. It was decades ahead of its time. I mean, that’s probably the wrong way to look at it, as it just doesn’t sound like anybody else. Most records, you can pick them apart, and be like ‘Oh, that bit reminds me of The Stooges or The Beatles, or what have you’, but with Suicide, when you hear that record, you have no idea where this came from. You don’t know where the reference points are because there seem to be none. And that’s kind of almost unheard of in music. It’s like it’s from another planet and you treasure it because it feels like this little nugget that you found.
Selected in other Baker’s Dozens: Rocket Girl, James Fry, Coldcut, Blanck Mass, Pan Sonic, Dean Wareham, Moby, El P
