Undesirable Element (180g LP)

Format: LP  Label: Got Kinda Lost Records   Year: 2021  Media Condition: New  Sleeve/Cover Condition: New  TRACKS: A1 Blind Faith A2 Article Two (The Handgun Song) A3 Depression A4 Love And War (Alternate Version) A5 War Was Raging On B1 Non-Surgical Lobotomy B2 Breathe In Deep B3 Paranoid Song B4 Destitute B5 Another Day Originally released ca. 1985. All vocals and instruments: Dale Jenkins Taking DC DIY to another level, and falling neatly in the gap between the loud fast rules of DC hardcore and the scene's post-punk renaissance, came this outsider one-man-band mid-80s gem. Undesirable Elements is a loose concept album of sorts, from the sympathetic pen of an innately skilled commentator. The album displays polemical disdain for the behavior of humans, insular views, and blindly moving forward on simple suggestion, while carrying a keen eye into the many textures of the mindscape of humanity. Jenkins's direct, intensely personal and lyrically sophisticated material, combined with his charged attack, is in a realm all its own. Jenkins's lyrics are nearly cinematic, like bite-sized scripts, or character vignettes, filled with wizened, introspective and radicalized perspective. The self-contained home-recording maverick was searching, sensitive, subversive, topical, yet several steps from the soapbox.