Mary – Don’t Whisper CD

Punky, experimental noise rock from mid-80s Vancouver, Canada. Some of the same touchstones as Big Black, but very lo-fi cassette-only releases back in the day. This is the second reissue of what is regarded as the most important of the Deviant & the Clones DIY releases.

Liam Warfield (sometimes known as Liam Idiot) is a writer and sometimes punk-inspired, hobo lo-fi folk rock musician. While he had done some conceptual albums before Little Savage (such as Joshua Moses’ Din and Danger), this disc was also a complete narrative, telling a story loosely based on the Wild Boy of Aveyron while stretching out musically from his earlier guitar-in-hand-while-riding-the-rails-between-campfires aesthetic.