Reviews:

This record is the blueprint for good NYHC: fast, pissed, and tough in a raging punk rock way (not that polished gangster thug bullshit that would come later). There's not a bad song on here, just straight thrash with a few short leads and gang choruses. "Real Deal" and "Something Must Be Done" are both over the top anthems, the latter featuring a rocking mosh riff that's fast enough to not be cheesy. The only questionable thing about this EP is the lyrics to "Foreign Job Lot," which somewhat ambiguously refers to "aliens from another land" taking "US jobs." At least in "Nazi Youth" they took care to cross out the swastikas scrawled around the vague lyrics, but "Foreign Job Lot," an otherwise great song expressing confusion and outrage at the lot of the working class, is tainted with those opening xenophobic lines. You never know how literally or seriously to take early punk. Songs like "White Minority," "Guilty of Being White," or "Los Angeles" all bring up similar issues. All problems aside, this record is amazingly good and worth tracking down in bootleg form (who really needs the Krishna artwork in full color?).
-JEFF