The Unexamined Life

double vinyl with download reissue of 'the unexamined life' from 1993. falling somewhere between captain beefheart, throbbing gristle and salem in the lineage of musicians who've found a muse in the nasty, brutish brevity of life, supreme dicks chose to cloak disarmingly real paranoia and grief in the contemporary trappings of late '80s and early '90s lo-fi college rock. they stripped away all youthful yearning and anticipation in favour of a bleak and unblinking certainty. honest, frank, and free of ironic distance. obtuse and yet so essential that it can't help but feel familiar to anyone who's ever spent a sleepless night wondering whether there's any point to all of this. and, on occasion, warm, intimate and lovely.