{"product_id":"flipper-generic-flipper","title":"FLIPPER  -  GENERIC FLIPPER","description":"\u003cp\u003eFlipper’s 1982 debut remains one of the most uncompromising statements to emerge from early San Francisco punk. Released on Subterranean Records, Generic Flipper rejected the era’s “faster-shorter-louder” arms race in favour of something heavier, slower and far more corrosive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRecorded between 1980 and 1981, the album thrives on tension: Will Shatter’s molten bass and dual vocals with Bruce Loose, Ted Falconi’s scraping, glacial guitar and Steve DePace’s blunt, repetitive rhythms combine into a thick, confrontational mass. It’s playful and paranoid in equal measure, wilfully abrasive yet strangely hypnotic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe lyrics cut deep. ‘Ever’ opens with stark existential dread, while ‘Sex Bomb’ stretches into an eight-minute churn of looping bass, saxophone and effects, pushing punk towards something closer to nihilistic art-rock.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImitated endlessly by noise rock and sludge bands since, Generic Flipper still stands apart. Few matched its mix of acidic guitar, metallic low-end and deadpan, sardonically sharp writing. Decades on, it remains a benchmark for punk at its most stubborn and subversive.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SUPERIOR VIADUCT","offers":[{"title":"Coloured vinyl","offer_id":56397820985730,"sku":"DHR-05577","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0556\/2800\/5583\/files\/598d831c60c9a71f1203d492e3603faf.jpg?v=1771614216","url":"https:\/\/dreamhouseldn.com\/products\/flipper-generic-flipper","provider":"Dreamhouse Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}