4AD shines a light on the Leeds dream pop band's second album, remastered and augmented by the bonus 7" from the original vinyl pressing and nine demos.
One of the many oddities in the Black Flag catalog, this four song EP of instrumental, jazz-informed sprawl is every bit as menacing and uneasy as the band's punk songs with various vocalists. Recorded and released in 1985 at the peak of the band's productivity, The Process of Weeding Out is minimal but charged, experimenting with atonality and messy improvisation in a decidedly rock format.
One of the band's masterworks, Juju sees Siouxsie and the Banshees operating in a squalid wall of sound dominated by tribal drums, swirling and piercing guitars, and Siouxsie Sioux's fractured art-attack vocals. If not for John McGeoch's marvelous high-pitched guitars, here as reminiscent of Joy Division as his own work in Magazine, the album would rank as the band's most gothic release. Thanks to its killer singles, unrelenting force, and invigorating dynamics, Juju is a post-punk classic.
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