For Ever Grounded LP

The Effigies formed in Chicago in 1980, part of the first wave of punk bands to break through in a city whose rock establishment mostly looked past the genre. Steve Albini later called them "absolutely essential" to building a healthy Chicago punk scene, and their Haunted Town cover is said to be the first use of the Chicago flag as a countercultural symbol, a move other local punk bands picked up afterward. For Ever Grounded first came out in 1984 on Ruthless Records, and this anniversary edition remixes those original recordings rather than just repressing them flat.