The Scissor Girls, We People Space with Phantoms (side A)

While by the time We People Space with Phantoms came out in 1996, Kelly Kuvo was playing guitar, this album was recorded several years earlier and features original guitarist SueAnn Zollinger. As a result, it's resembles straightforward rock music at least a bit more than the Scissor Girls' later work. The album sounds pretty primitive and harsh, even though several professional engineers were involved with its recording. The SG's fragmented blare was already in full-force by this point, if not as reductionist and abstract as on the later singles and STATICLAND EP. The crazy drawings on the cover nicely reflect the chaos inside.