When this came out I thought The Miss were destined to be among the great undiscovered nouveau noise rock/no-wave bands - like my local favorites The 1985 (of whom I'll probably post something here eventually).
Nouveau noise rock/no-wave? "Come again," you say? Well, you could sorta dance to these bands in a quirky sort of way, like Devo, Pop Group and Liquid Liquid. They were atonal, like MX-80 and DNA. They had a thick rhythm section driving most of the songs, akin to Jesus Lizard, Craw, Slug, et al. And some of them actually got kinda big. Well, Pitchfork big, anyway. Liars. Ex Models. And so on.
The Miss did not get big, but that was certainly not for a lack of recorded effort. This one and only LP could have easily stood its ground against all comers. But it never had the chance, and alas here it is on my blog instead. Enjoy.
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