180 gram LP + printed inner with lyrics and bonus CD of the album
Humans are the cancer of the planet...all people have untapped psychic powers...acid is good...aliens exist...these are just some of the ideas that the pioneering San Francisco band Chrome was grappling with in its music, labeled "acid punk" by the press in a desperate attempt to categorize them. Comparing them to everyone from Pere Ubu, to the Residents, to Devo, to Can, to Eno, the reality was that no one knew really knew where they fit in...perhaps because they really were channeling their music from some distant alien planet.
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