HYPNOTICS - "Indoor Fiends" LP (Purple Vinyl)

"Another coup/score for Artifix with this reissue of a hardcore classic, which hasn’t been legitimately re-released on vinyl since its original 1982 release on Enigma Records (when I say “hardcore,” I’m talking Southern California first-wave hardcore, meaning it falls somewhere between the thug-rock of the Cheifs and the off-kilter weirdness of Artistic Decline rather than the kind of zippy shit that made bands like DRI and the Neos trillionaires).

The songs are short, appropriately primal—yet a lot more slyly sophisticated than it may appear to casual ears—and coupled with the kind of humor-laden “obnoxious for obnoxiousness’s sake” lyrical fodder one would expect from something of a time when the intent was often to rankle “the squares” by serving up something to offend anyone who dared listen. A classic of its time and genre."

-RAZORCAKE, September 2023

SIDE A
1 Weird People
2 Eating Soup
3 News
4 Nazi Snotzy
5 Sometimes
6 I Can’t Think
7 Sick Of Work
8 Everyday
9 Doomed
10 You’re Sick

SIDE B
1 I’m Running
2 Celebrity Killer
3 Kiddie Porn
4 Punk Street
5 Sizzling In The City
6 S&M
7 Giants Town
8 Dreams And Fantasies
9 The Truth
10 I Can’t Get The Sleep In My Head
11 Wild Kingdom Safari
12 The Quest