Rites of Spring

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  1985

  James

  The emotional force comes less from the lyrics themselves than from how hard Guy Picciotto pushes against the limits of his voice trying to deliver them. The songs speed up and collapse inward unpredictably, like arguments happening in real time. “For Want Of” and “Drink Deep” don’t separate vulnerability from aggression—they make them the same thing. It changed punk partly by refusing to sound emotionally armored.