Pere Ubu’s earliest releases in the late ‘70s upended punk rock’s simplistic howl. It rewrote Dylan’s paranoid visions of cold war and political intrigue and introduced a band that would transcend genres and rewrite the theory of rock music, ripping up the plan and re-collaging it as they saw fit in subsequent years. Formed in 1975, their early incarnations were captured a decade later on the seminal ‘Terminal Tower’ an 11-track that brought together their early 45s and flipsides.
