Fugazi Unveil Details Of 'First Demo' Release

The forthcoming issuing of the first recordings from legendary post-hardcore outfit Fugazi has taken more solid shape, with the album's release date, track list and artwork being dropped overnight.

First Demo, a collection of eleven early songs recorded by Fugazi at Inner Ear Studios, in Arlington, Virginia, way back in 1988, will be released in the States via Dischord on November 18 this year, and look a little something like this:

Fugazi formed in Washington, DC in 1987, after frontman Ian MacKaye left hardcore punk outfit Minor Threat, and joined up with guitarist Guy Picciotto (of first-wave emo pioneers Rites Of Spring), bassist Joe Lally and drummer Brendan Canty. In a career that lasted almost thirty years (they've been on indefinite hiatus since 2003), they went on to release six full-length records and become one of the most subversive and influential underground acts of the late '80s and early '90s post-hardcore scene. The band's most recent release is 2001's acclaimed sixth LP, The Argument. 

Not all the songs on First Demo are strictly "new" — for example, Waiting Room, which opens the new 11-track album, originally appeared on 1988's Fugazi EP; but the recordings themselves are, and that's reason enough to start rubbing your hands together greedily at the thought of getting your mitts on this bad boy when it drops in a couple of months.

first demo track list

Waiting Room
Merchandise
Furniture
Song #1
The Word
Bad Mouth
Break-In
Turn Off Your Guns
And the Same
In Defense of Humans
Joe #1