"Grayscale art-rock with punk desperation channeled through instrumental and songwriting legitimacy...Terminal Mind remains an act locals still celebrate despite a short lifespan and being under-recorded." -- Austin Chronicle
"Essential listening for students of American punk history." -- Paste
"Terminal Mind sounds remarkably fresh and prescient today." -- PopMatters
First-wave Austin, TX punk trio Terminal Mind are streaming their forthcoming retrospective album in full starting today via PopMatters. Recordings collects the short lived band's 4-song 7" (which fetches upwards of $100 on eBay), Live At Raul's compilation cuts and outstanding unreleased studio and live recordings from 1979-1981. Hear and share Recordings HERE. (Direct Soundcloud.)
Paste Magazine recently featured the carefully restored mix of the band's standout anthem "I Want To Die Young" HERE. Austin Chronicle shared the incendiary "Refugee" HERE. And, I Heart Noise hosted the powerhouse live soundboard track that perfectly showcases the band's exceptional melodicism and musicianship HERE.
Terminal Mind play a one-off reunion show in Austin, TX at Beerland to celebrate the album release. Tickets and more information available HERE.
Terminal Mind, formed in 1978, was one of the early first-wave punk acts in Austin, TX. Based far from the urban roots of a genre in its earliest stages, the band absorbed influences as disparate as Pere Ubu, Roxy Music, John Cale, and Wire. The life span was short, but their influence touched many of the next generation of Texas noise and hardcore acts as they shared bills with fellow proto-punks The Huns and Standing Waves at Raul's, The Big Boys on the UT campus, and even opened for Iggy Pop at the Armadillo World Headquarters.
Founding members Steve Marsh and the Murray Brothers, Doug and Greg, started as a trio before adding synthesizer player Jack Crow. Steve Marsh moved to New York with his experimental noise band Miracle Room (before eventually returning to Austin and forming space/psychedelic rock band Evil Triplet and beginning an experimental solo project dubbed Radarcave), while Doug Murary joined the Skunks and Greg Murray played in a later version of The Big Boys. Jack Crow passed away in 1994.
This collection of songs is a journey back to the 'anything goes' first steps of American punk as it left the dirty streets of New York and Los Angeles and made its way into the heartland. Like the Austin of 1978, Recordings is a small outpost of musical individualism that planted seeds for the alternative music explosion familiar to later generations.
Recordings will be available on LP, CD and download on January 19th, 2018 via Sonic Surgery Records.
TERMINAL MIND LIVE:
01/19 Austin, TX @ Beerland (w/ Eastside Suicides)
Artist: Terminal Mind
Album: Recordings
Label: Sonic Surgery Records
Release Date: January 19, 2018
01. I Want to Die Young
02. Refugee
03. Sense of Rhythm
04. Zombieland
05. Obsessed With Crime
06. Fear In the Future
07. Radioactive
08. Bridges Are For Burning
09. (I Give Up On) Human Rights
10. Black
11. Missing Pieces
12. Bureaucracy
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