Brazen Hussies - Year Zero; An Anthology

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24 tracks all remastered by Ian Button (Death In Vegas/Thrashing Doves/Papernut Cambridge) with extensive sleevenotes and essays.

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Different track listing to CD with Bridesville included for ultimate commercial suicide.

1. Touch It (2.12)
2. Pop Song (2.04)
3. Superisolate (2.50)
4. Crawfish (2.23)
5. Thin Lips (1.49)
6. Salt Leak (1.45)
7. Scrape (3.25)
8. Ballad Of Sexual Violence (3.20)
9. Heavy Electricity (4.12)
10. Forgot More Than I Ever Knew (1.53)

Side B
1. Bridesville (19.52)
2. The Whole World Envies Us (1.19)
2. Internal Repression Trade (2.00)

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1.	Touch It 02:12	buy track
2.	Superisolate 02:50	buy track
3.	Fleur 02:24	buy track
4.	Ballad Of Sexual Violence 03:20	buy track
5.	Looked Into Your Eyes 02:18	buy track
6.	Thin Lips 01:49	buy track
7.	Salt Leak 01:45	buy track
8.	Scrape 03:25	buy track
9.	Wet Shelter 03:37	buy track
10.	The Whole World Envies Us 01:19	buy track
11.	Internal Repression Trade 02:00	buy track
12.	Heavy Electricity 04:12	buy track
13.	Pop Song 02:04	buy track
14.	Forgot More Than I Ever Knew 01:53	buy track
15.	Kimberley 02:32	buy track
16.	You Are My Brother 04:03	buy track
17.	Crawfish 02:23	buy track
18.	Vittima Colpavole 02:02	buy track
19.	Sleep It Off 01:22	buy track
20.	Fee Bee 07:05	buy track
21.	Decathexis 02:00	buy track
22.	Can't Seem To Make You Mine 03:14	buy track
23.	I'm Straight 08:20	buy track
24.	All Summer Long 02:08	buy track

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Notorious ‘lost’ art punk visionaries finally given their retrospective.
Brazen Hussies were a London based band who existed roughly and fractiously between 1996 and 2004. They were fronted by Canadian alien Dave Queen and Lou McDonnell (Psyche). The band were rounded out by the rhythm section of Lunch on bass and Russell Curtis on drums and managed by the late great Lawrence Graham-Leigh.

Brazen Hussies appeared on a few compilations, but it was 1999’s ‘Living In Fear Of Reprisals’ 3 track maxi single, which led to reviews in NME, Melody Maker and Kerrang! In which they were simultaneously single of the week and wankers of the week. However the Hussies were too fragile and fraught by personal issues to truly capitalise on this acclaim. The 'Ya-Ba' EP was released on Peanut Records in 2002 before spluttering to a halt in 2004 with the mythical 26 minute long song 'Bridesville'.

The tracks have been remastered by Ian Button (Death In Vegas/Papernut Cambridge) and the CD and LP versions have a different track order and both contain extensive sleeve notes and photography.

The Brazen Hussies were led by the Dave/Lou duo, Dave with nervy provocative lyrics and melodies about to collapse - but in a uniquely beautiful way. It seemed like Lou maybe had a more sensible counter-point to Dave – to keep him rooted at least slightly - but equally based on fast, chunky fuzz guitars. It was always surprising, always angular.
Dave wrote songs that unashamedly showed off his personal anxieties, and had a cutting wit against injustices that he saw. It was acidic and funny, and so intense, that it often boiled over live into him exposing himself – like he’d gone beyond words and that was the only way left to communicate. At the very least it was different to any other gig. At times they sound like a punk rock mess, but actually it’s what you get when punk visionary Dave Queen - with a liking for hair metal and prog rock - writes songs with unique musical pivots and turnarounds. But it’s ultra-rehearsed and tight; they knew what they were doing – might not always be easy to listen to, but it pushed hard into newness and originality.

Dave was a peculiar-looking thin awkward creature, yet strangely charismatic in a grimy way, demolishing cigarettes, alcohol, whatever was at hand. Between songs, short machine gun bursts of talking. Dave’s guitar playing was the musical equivalent to his vocals. He had a deep and well-concealed knowledge of musical theory, which was both chaotically and discerningly stuffed into the blender laced/garnished with 80’s metal shredding. Although more than virtuoso enough to emulate Van Halen-like fretboard tapping – the whole experience was too edgy and high-energy to hold that down. It was always ahead of the beat, and always drenched in amphetamine undercurrent. It was shocking and eloquent, controversial art.

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'Manages to skewer the trashy glamour of punk-era Blondie, the whipcord sass of Elastica and the shambolic lurch of Sham 69, like a ransom note threatening the imminent mistreating of X, Mark E Smith and Kiss' - NME, 14th April 1999

Pete: “I like the cover – and if they intended the CD to sound like that it’s brilliant. I think if I was very drunk, I could sit around with my friends and enjoy this”. Johnny: “That’s abrasive, man. I don’t find it offensive but I have no fucking idea what they are trying to do”. Kerrang! 14th August, 1999. With guest reviewers Pete Steele and Johnny Kelly from Type O Negative.

“F**cking c**ts” – Melody Maker, Wankers Of The Week, 14th August, 1999.

2021/22 Anthology reviews

"Chaotic rockers slashed with Bob Quine-like guitar ejaculations" - Record Collector

"With the quicksilver musical skills of a Fugazi or Minutemen, allied to utterly confrontational live performances (softened by the confessional and often quite beautiful lyrics of Dave Queen), tied to a sense of imminent collapse, Brazen Hussies should have been massive. Bands like Elastica owe a huge debt to Brazen Hussies as do The Libertines. If you’ve never heard them before this is as good place to start as any. Highly recommended." - 9 out of 10 - Vive Le Rock

"A thrash loving Suede. Leonard Cohen being reimagined by the gutters of 90's Kings Cross" - Whisperin' and Hollerin'

“If it were possible to actually see a song sweat, then this would be it.“
Comparisons with Richard Hell, The Stooges, Roxy Music, New York Dolls, Sleater-Kinney and Pixies - God Is In The TV

"Rough examples of a punk attitude and sociopathic swagger" also comparisons to Dogs D’Amour, Billy Joel and New York Dolls obvs... - The Razor's Edge

'Lou Reed and the Brazen Hussies shared a similar playful disrespect for the song form, a fascination for discordance and a city sound that smacks of too much traffic, too many people, bright lights, broken lights, dim alleyways, threat danger and edge... This music is serious. Really. It's experimental. It reflects deep thought. Meticulous preparation. Don't dismiss it. Give it the respect it deserves.' - HiFi World Magazine

'For this ‘lost’ London group played loosely and quite skilfully with their influences, which ranged (by the sounds of it) to everyone from Richard Hell to The Monochrome Set, from The Pixies to the Nuggets box set. Anything but a complete mess they showed a certain élan for the pivot, for the light and shade as they transitioned from the needled and coarse gnarling for halftime downtime and even a bit of melody. Because out of the ramshackle punk, post-punk and cutting dissonance there was always some remnant, a semblance of a half-decent tune.' - Monolith Cocktail

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