Tuxedomoon - No Tears 12" 12-inches " as the album opens

" as the album opens unforgettably with a nameless promoter introducing The Fall

in black leather jacket covered in rat-traps and playing a gas-powered lawnmower on stage – the eels broke up in 1976 and posthumously released their classic single Agitated on Rough Trade in 1978

Leave The Capitol

This first-time vinyl reissue includes "Wintermusic

As Byron Coley writes in the liner notes

Tuxedomoon - No Tears 12" 12-inches " as the album opensFounded by Steven Brown and Blaine Reininger in San Francisco, Tuxedomoon are a futuristic alternate reality of delirium and existential dread. Aligned with fellow Bay Area experimentalists The Residents (to whose Ralph Records the group eventually signed) and Robin Crutchfield's post DNA project Dark Day, Tuxedomoon developed a unique combination of synthesizer and guitar that placed them at the forefront of the US post punk movement in the late '70s