SUICIDE - DREAM BABY DREAM, 1979

Fixtures of the New York rock underground since the early 1970s, Suicide mixed Alan Vega’s constantly crackling blues-styled vocals and Martin Rev’s minimalist drum machine and synthesizer (originally a broken-down Farfisa organ) into a sound that remains an essential artifact of mid ’70s Manhattan attitudes, a portrait of a society grinding down to self-destruction. Sessions following their first self titled album from 1977 produced the duo’s anthemic “Dream Baby Dream,” issued as a 12-inch single featuring Rev’s use of electronics which had grown even more subtle and complex next to Vega’s increasingly tethered and uneasy vocals.

EP available here.