Who's Got the 10½?
A visceral live document of late-era Black Flag. Dissonant, sludge-heavy, and fiercely improvisational, capturing the band at their most musically complex.
August 23, 1985 · Piggymot Records
A visceral live document of late-era Black Flag. Dissonant, sludge-heavy, and fiercely improvisational, capturing the band at their most musically complex.
August 23, 1985 · Piggymot Records
This is not the hyper-speed hardcore of the early 80s; it is something far more physically taxing and musically adventurous. Who's Got the 10½? captures Black Flag in 1985, a period where they were actively alienating their original punk audience by slowing down the tempos and leaning into heavy, atonal jams. The sound is thick and suffocating, defined by Greg Ginn's polarizing guitar work which eschews traditional riffs for jagged, free-jazz inspired noise. It feels like a band pushing against the walls of their own genre, trying to find a new way to express frustration that goes beyond simple velocity.
How does Who's Got the 10½? sound next to the rest of Black Flag's catalogue?
The production is pushed notably harder into live recording than this artist usually allows.
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