Frenching The Bully (2025 Reissue)
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Remastered reissue of The Gits’ 1992 debut album Frenching the Bully, which has been out of print on physical formats for years. This new edition features refreshed artwork, new liner notes by Tim Sommer (who signed the band to Atlantic), and a poster insert.
The Gits were formed at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio in mid-1986, grabbing and swapping pieces of art, thrash, noise, punk rock, classic rock, and all the sorts of magical silly and bookish jingle bells that an old-school liberal arts education handed you; for the next few years they worked on turning it all into something tough, sensitive, both brutal and kind. The Gits put out three EPs in 1990 and ’91 before signing with C/Z Records and releasing their first full-length album, Frenching the Bully. Seattle quickly claimed the quartet as their own and embraced the Gits blend of ferocious fangs and soft heart, the slug/slap of the guitars, and the gorgeous, soft underbelly of the poetic emotions. The Gits were an angry, inflamed slinky fully in tune with and tuned by the Bessie Patti Smith of her time, truly the only singer who could summon Joplin, Poly Styrene, Sam Cooke, Iggy Pop and Ian MacKaye all in the same goddamn song.
Released: January 2025
Cat: SP1648X
Label: Sub Pop
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Tracklist
1. Absynthe
2. Another Shot of Whiskey
3. Insecurities
4. Slaughter of Bruce
5. Kings and Queens
6. It All Dies Anyway
7. While You’re Twisting I’m Still Breathing
8. A
9. Wingo Lamo
10. Spear and Magic Helmet
11. Cut My Skin it Makes Me Human
12. Here's to Your Fuck
13. Second Skin