Gang of Four - Songs of the Free LP punk With some of ISS’s best

With some of ISS’s best songs—like the anthemic title track

and six albums in - that's no easy feat

She was out to destroy all the institutions weheld dear

Billie Holiday

Jake Robertson (who you may remember from such class acts as Ausmuteants

Gang of Four - Songs of the Free LP punk With some of ISS’s bestGang of Four was formed in Leeds in 1976 by bassist Dave Allen, drummer Hugo Burnham, guitarist Andy Gill, and singer Jon King. The band pioneered a style of music that inverted punks blunt and explosive energies favoring tense rhythms, percussive guitars, and lyrics that traded in Marxist theory and situationism. They put every element of the traditional rock band format to question, from notions of harmony and rhythm to presentation and performance.