Honor Role - The Pretty Song LP [1986]
A fairly unknown post-punk group from Richmond Virginia who are a forgotten or perhaps a never even known influence on post-hardcore, indie math rock etc. The likes of Drive Like Jehu, Rocket From The Crypt, Fugazi and Superchunk acknowledge their influence and you gotta think Slint, Don Cabellero, Disco Inferno, Polvo, Unwound maybe even Eddy Current Suppression Ring and many others benefitted artistically by listening to Honor Role.
Here's a few tunes from their 1986 LP on Eskimo/No Core Records which is more classic shadowy post-punk as opposed to their 1989 follow up Rictus on Homestead which was more on the experimental noisey math-rock tip.
*I get there's some lazy, atemporal and reading history backwards zoomer retardedness going on in the snippet reviews below but for just one day only I don't care.
Throwing Rocks [1986]
Bringing you all the 90s slacker talk-singing and lo-fi in 1986.
My Place [1986]
That lost bewildered sound filled with regret and defiance, wait for exciting classic guitar bit at 1:37.
Six [1986]
Layers of gloom like if Rowland S Howard collaborated with Slint.
Present Conditions [1986]
Downbeat 80s eeriness with Galaxie 500 (who didn't even exist yet) levels of reverbed guitar for maximum whimsical day-dreaminess. Hard not to think this is a lost classic.
Care Taker [1986]
Dilapidated visions. Cold war fear. Enveloping ominousness in the desolate 80s. Tenebrous tones sonically somewhere between Gordons, Tactics and Wire.
