Pussy Galore – Right Now!

Pussy Galore’s debut LP Right Now! is a blast of lo-fi abrasion and bare-bones minimalism that helped redraw the lines of underground rock in the late ’80s. Stripped to its raw components and smeared in distortion, it lurches between trashy blues, no-wave dissonance and proto-grunge snarl with reckless intent.

Often overlooked but hugely influential, Right Now! distils the band’s confrontational aesthetic into something primal and immediate — clattering drums, scabrous guitar scrape and vocals that sound half-buried in blown-out tape hiss. It’s messy, volatile and entirely uncompromising, laying vital groundwork for the noise-rock and alt-rock movements that followed.

A crucial document of American underground extremity, this is Pussy Galore in their most feral early form.