Includes Bonus Flexi. Catalog Number: IP082WHITE Color: White Format: LP UPC: 761971508208 Afterimage may have only existed for a couple of years and released merely one single and one EP, but their take on post-punk--at once raw and explorative, with an eye to the sound that was emanating from across the ocean and one to a past-acknowledging future-- left a mark in the underground sonic psyche of the City of Angels. Faces to Hide collects all of Afterimage's studio recordings, plus demos and live tracks from performances at now legendary spots such as The Whisky A Go Go and Al's Bar. Listening to this compilation, one can picture the four members of Afterimage--Alec Tension (Dan Voznick), A Produce (aka future ambient explorer Barry Craig), Rich Evac and Holland DeNuzzio--bonding over a love of Public Image Ltd, Pere Ubu, Magazine, The Fall, Patti Smith and Television, while eagerly adding unexpected detours (surf rock, electrifying blasts of saxophone). Faces to Hide also makes it easy to see why, back in the day, the Los Angeles Times was compelled to call Afterimage "LA's Joy Divsion". Similarly to the UK trailblazers (of whom they were among the first avowed admirers among the LA punks), Afterimage seemed to sculpt their sound in marble, coming up with hypnotic skittery sonics revealed to be chilly upon their surface and fiery in their details. Now coming on double LP (available in both black and opaque white), Special Edition CD and digital, Faces to Hide proves as scathing, urgent, taut, angular and gripping as Afterimage's scarce but unforgettable output must have sounded more than forty years ago. On the third track, a song that Afterimage titled after themselves, Alec Tension can be heard singing of "an early shadow, a thousand doubts". It's a compelling metaphor for a band that still offers multitudes to unearth.