MOOD OF DEFIANCE - Now

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: RRS119
Barcode: 8055515231687
Release Date: 01 Nov 2024
Genre: Punk

SIDE A
A1. THE DIVIDED STATES OF AMERICA 
A2. PEANUT BUTTER SKIES 
A3. GIRL IN A PAINTING
A4. DUCK BACK FLOW
A5. STICKY LIPS
A6. 153RD ST. 9/12/79

SIDE B
B1. PLASTIC DUCK HOLDERS 
B2. AFTERNOON / MY GARDEN
B3. PAINTED DRAGON 
B4. FEEL REAL
B5. POEM 
B6. NOT WHAT YOU THINK

SOUTHERN LOS ANGELES EXPERIMENTAL PUNK BAND MOOD OF DEFIANCE WAS FORMED IN HERMOSA BEACH IN 1981, SPINNING OFF FROM A SHORT-LIVED  SYNTHESIZER PROJECT CALLED KINDLED IMAGINATION, FORMED IN NEARBY SAN PEDRO (HOME TO THE MINUTEMEN) WITH DRUMMER RICHIE WILDER OF  SACCHARINE TRUST. TEENAGED LEAD SINGER AND BAND ORIGINATOR RACHEL MORGAN, WHO WAS KNOWN AS ‘SCREAMING BITCH RACHEL’ AND LATER, HATHA  WATHA, FORMED MOD WITH WILDER, RECRUITING INITIAL GUITARIST TA BLACK AND BASSIST KEVIN BALL FROM A MUSIC PRESS ADVERTISEMENT. DEBUT DEMO RECORDINGS (EVENTUALLY ISSUED AS IN A BOX) FEATURED THIS LINE-UP BUT AFTER BLACK AND BALL QUIT THE BAND, THEY WERE * BY DANNY DEAN PHILIPS AND GARY KAIL FROM THE BAND ANTI, MOONLIGHTING IN THIS SIDE PROJECT FOR DEBUT ALBUM NOW, RELEASED ON PHILIPS’ AND KAIL’S APTLYTITLED NEW UNDERGROUND LABEL IN 1982; OTHER BAND MEMBERS FEATURED ON THE DISC INCLUDE DRUMMER THADDEUS. OPENER ‘DIVIDED STATES OF AMERICA’ SET THE DISC’S DEFIANT PUNK TONE, THOUGH ‘STICKY LIPS’ AND ‘GIRL IN A PAINTING’ ARE LESS CAUSTIC, WITH BROADER MUSICAL DEXTERITY AND POST-PUNK RHYTHMIC REFERENCES. AN IMPORTANT PIECE OF SOUTHERN CALFORNIA PUNK HISTORY BACK ON VINYL AFTER 38 YEARS