If you follow the link to the label above, they have a CD out with what I'm sure is a better quality version of this EP plus four demo tapes of this band. A few years back I checked out the website and this material was not apparently available in any format. I'd like to order the CD myself, this sounds like a band that should have been able to record more than one record.
As early '80s punk/hardcore/thrash goes this is relatively melodic/ "musical" stuff. Bluurg is the label run by Dick Lucas of Subhumans UK/ Culture Shock/ Citizen Fish fame. That's about as solid a punk pedigree as exists, more than 30 years of DIY dedication and likely more benefit gigs than can be counted.
Lucas seems to have a fixation on fish and the catalog numbers all begin with that word, thus this record is fish 4. At least it might be; according to the label's included ordering sheet that's the number for a cassette by a band called Organized Chaos; the record's label is marked fish 4 too.
I bought this 7" EP many years ago solely because it was on this label, and generally whatever was on the label displayed more talent and more thoughtfulness than most punk offerings of the '80s had available. I wish I knew more about the band other than that they were English (County Kent) and on Bluurg, but that's what I've got. Any additional info is welcome. Some sources online have this as a 1982 release but the sleeve states these songs were recorded in 1983.
My two favorite tracks are "Smile" and "Alienn", and I have no idea why the latter is spelled that way.
Side A:
One Step Forward
Alienn
Side B:
Frightened
Smile
Evil Faces
Located here.
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