The Gun Club - Sex Beat

Purchase: Artist: The Gun Club Album: Fire of Love (1981) Label: Slash Records 𝘼𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 Tribal psychobilly blues is the best way to describe the Gun Club’s energetic death rock, but the band’s career seemed doomed from the get-go due to leader Jeffrey Lee Pierce’s reputation as an unreliable wildman, and well-publicized bouts of drunkenness dogged him throughout his career. Formed in Los Angeles in the early ’80s, the band was vaguely aligned with similarly roots-inspired groups like X and the Blesters, but later picked up and relocated to the Lower East Side, resting more comfortably around the New York downtown set and Pierce’s mentors, Debbie Harry and Chris Stein.