Originally published in Verbicide issue #5

There isn’t enough that I could say about how much I love or appreciate Fugazi.  We all know how great their new album is, and basically this little three-song EP — released around the same time as The Argument — is more like a little companion to go along with the full-length, rather than a separate entity.  The first song, “Furniture,” sounds much like Fugazi circa 1990, and has that great sarcastic humor of Ian MacKaye: “This is a song with no words/but no one can hear the missing/they just look at my mouth/and look at my mouth/and say, ‘hey man, I know where you’re coming from.’”  Track two, “Number 5,” is a rocking three-minute instrumental, followed by “Hello Morning,” the essential Guy Picciotto track.  If you buy the new LP, you should get this too.  For four bucks, why not?

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