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Andi ChorleyAlien by Jim McCarthy (sometimes credited as being by the Godz) released on ESP-Disk in 1973
Alien Review by Dean McFarlane
New York's legendary folk/punk godfathers the Godz may have run their course after their first three albums, Contact High With the Godz, Godz 2, and The Third Testament on ESP put them in the same league as the Stooges, MC5,Monks, or even Captain Beefheart for foreshadowing punk. Alien is a deranged offering of lo-fi acoustic strum and neo-tribal noise that the group cut at the end of the '60s when going in a psychedelic direction instead of just plainly psychotic. Absolutely brilliant. The Godz' significance in the history of punk, garage, and lo-fi could never be overstated.
