Repeater is the debut full-length studio album by the American post-hardcore band Fugazi. It was released in January 1990 as Repeater on LP, and in March 1990 on CD bundled with the 3 Songs EP as Repeater + 3 Songs.
By this time Fugazi had made the transition into jamming & writing new material as a band, as opposed to playing songs composed solely by Ian MacKaye.
Ian MacKaye told Guitar World that the album title Repeater, "Is loaded on so many ...
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Repeater is the debut full-length studio album by the American post-hardcore band Fugazi. It was released in January 1990 as Repeater on LP, and in March 1990 on CD bundled with the 3 Songs EP as Repeater + 3 Songs.
By this time Fugazi had made the transition into jamming & writing new material as a band, as opposed to playing songs composed solely by Ian MacKaye.
Ian MacKaye told Guitar World that the album title Repeater, "Is loaded on so many levels. It's actually about how things in life repeat over and over. But the title is also a rather obscure nod to the Beatles' Revolver. A record revolves and it also repeats. A revolver is also a gun, and so is a repeater. The title track is about kids repeatedly shooting each other. In Washington, DC in the Eighties, about 700 kids got killed during this crazy crack war."
The album was recorded at Inner Ear Studios in Arlington, Virginia by Don Zientara and Ted Nicely from July to September of 1989. The band was only able to record between...
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