MINUTEMEN - The Politics of Time LP hip hop Originally released on Rick Rubin’s

Originally released on Rick Rubin’s American Recordings label in 1994

Rated highly on many end of year lists for 2019 with its strange progfolk hymns from this Newcastle-Upon-Tyne songwriter and guitarist

but it's still pleasantly surprising at how well Acid Baby Jesus do it

Synthesizer king J

Their debut on Trouble In Mind brings a brand of mid-fi

MINUTEMEN - The Politics of Time LP hip hop Originally released on Rick Rubin’sThis album collects previously unreleased outtakes, demos and live recordings from early in the Minutemen's career. As such, the quality, particularly the sound quality, is almost necessarily uneven, to say the least. However, that doesn't prevent it from being an excellent documentary of the Minutemen's raw energy; obviously it's perfectly useless as an introduction to the band, but fans get some unadulterated material that's unavailable elsewhere.