catalogue

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

ROADKILL (CAPTURED TRACKS)

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT - ROADKILL 127838
format:
1 CD
release:
14.09.2018
label:
CAPTURED TRACKS
item ID:
127838
barcode:
0817949014452
If I were to tell you that a band of NYC teenagers who met in 1979 decided to form a band influenced by Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle, Eno, Chrome and released a privately pressed record, it would be enough to pique your interest.

When you find out the band consisted of a future Supreme Court Justice for Arizona, a Professor of Slavic Studies, a Musician/Documentarian whose family built the Brooklyn Bridge, and an A-list world-famous actor the story goes from being about another rare, privately pressed recording that's been re-discovered, into something that's pretty incredible.

Captured Tracks is thrilled to announce the reissue of Capital Punishment's 1982 sole LP Roadkill.

For a band of high school weirdos who actually got their shit together enough to make a completely uncommercial album with no means to sell it shows a lot of determination, persistence and perhaps insanity.

But it's always those kinds of weirdos who go on to do great things - just ask Ju dge Peter Swann, Professor Peter Zusi, Kriss Roebling and Ben Stiller.

"I was in a band in high school -- it was called Capital Punishment, and it was sort of a post punk-neo-goth-urbanexperimental band...

I was sort of the Ringo of the band." - Ben Stiller on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. NECRONOMICON
  • 1.2. ROADKILL
  • 1.3. CONFUSION
  • 1.4. MUZAK ANONYMOUS
  • 1.5. ALL JUST IN PASSING
  • 1.6. DELTA TIME
  • 1.7. CREATURES OF THE DARK (NIGHT)
  • 1.8. COSMOS
  • 1.9. JOHN'S FORGOTTEN LAND (PARTS 1, 2, & 3)
  • 1.10. NECRONOMICON (REPRISE)
  • 1.11. WAITING TO SEE YOU
  • 1.12. HELEN