REFUSED - The Shape of Punk to Come - BRAND NEW CASSETTE TAPE

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For the first time ever on cassette! Refused - “The Shape of Punk to Come” 25th Anniversary Edition. Officially licensed from Epitaph Records.

Tapehead City release #38

This UV printed version is limited to 1,000 copies

The Shape of Punk to Come: A Chimerical Bombination in 12 Bursts, often shortened to The Shape of Punk to Come, is their third album originally released in 1998 through Burning Heart Records.

This album marked a sharp and conscious departure from Refused's earlier work. The philosophy of the album, expounded in the ample liner notes and encapsulated in the song "New Noise", was that punk and hardcore music could not be anti-establishment by continuing to package revolutionary lyrics in sounds which had been increasingly co-opted into the mainstream. The sound of the record challenged existing punk sensibilities; it can be seen as "punk" at a fundamental level and includes experimental combinations of post-hardcore, post-punk, techno, and jazz sounds..