Ike Yard – Night After Night – EP (Coloured)

Superior Viaduct

New York no-wavers Ike Yard are perhaps best known for being the first American band signed to Factory Records, and it isn’t difficult to hear why: the group’s music has much in common with the existential frigidness of Joy Division and early New Order as well as the mutant noise-funk of Section 25 and A Certain Ratio. That said, the sound of “Night After Night”, the band’s debut EP, is one that could only have emerged from the lawless dystopia of ’70s New York City.

“Night After Night” remains primal evidence of the dank, uncompromising narcotica of Ike Yard‘s embryonic period.

This first-time reissue, by Superior Viaduct, comes with original sleeve design.