Different Damage

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Different Damage
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 29, 2002
RecordedMay–June 2002
StudioInner Ear Studios, Shirlington, Virginia
Genre Post-hardcore, post-punk, dance-punk
Length36:14
Label Dischord
Producer Ian MacKaye
Don Zientara
Q and Not U chronology
No Kill No Beep Beep
(2000)
Different Damage
(2002)
Power
(2004)
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Different Damage is a Q and Not U album that was recorded at Inner Ear Studios in May/June 2002 and released in October 2002 on Dischord Records. It was engineered and produced by Ian MacKaye and Don Zientara and mastered by Chad Clark at Silver Sonya. The front cover and insert photography was taken by Shawn Brackbill in the accident inspection bay at the Geico headquarters in NW Washington, D.C. The back cover was shot by Brackbill at the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C. Different Damage was the band's first full-length album as a trio, following the dismissal of bassist Matt Borlik in November 2001.

Q and Not U was a post-hardcore band from Washington, D.C., signed to Dischord Records. Members John Davis, Harris Klahr, Christopher Richards, and Matt Borlik formed the band in 1998. After Borlik's departure following the release of their first album, the band went on to record two more critically acclaimed LPs as a three-piece, exploring aspects of dance-punk and other disparate musical styles. Q and Not U disbanded in September 2005 after completing their touring commitments and a short farewell stand at Washington, D.C. venue The Black Cat.

Dischord Records US independent record label

Dischord Records is a Washington, D.C.-based independent record label specializing in punk rock. The label is co-owned by Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson, who founded Dischord in 1980 to release Minor Disturbance by The Teen Idles. With other independent American labels such as Twin/Tone, Touch and Go Records, and SST Records, Dischord helped to spearhead the nationwide network of underground bands that formed the 1980s indie-rock scene. These labels presided over the shift from the hardcore punk that then dominated the American underground scene to the more diverse styles of alternative rock that were emerging.

Ian MacKaye American singer and record label owner

Ian Thomas Garner MacKaye is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, musician, record label owner and producer. Active since 1979, MacKaye is best known as the co-founder and owner of Dischord Records, a Washington, D.C.-based independent record label and the frontman of the influential hardcore punk band Minor Threat and the post-hardcore band Fugazi. MacKaye was also the frontman for the short-lived bands The Teen Idles, Embrace and Pailhead, a collaboration with the band Ministry. MacKaye is a member of The Evens, a two-piece indie rock group he formed with his wife Amy Farina in 2001.

Track listing

  1. "Soft Pyramids" – 4:07
  2. "So Many Animal Calls" – 2:08
  3. "Air Conditions" – 4:00
  4. "Black Plastic Bag" – 2:17
  5. "Meet Me in the Pocket" – 4:31
  6. "This Are Flashes" – 3:10
  7. "Everybody Ruins" – 1:54
  8. "Snow Patterns" – 3:01
  9. "When the Lines Go Down" – 2:27
  10. "O'No" – 1:16
  11. "No Damage Nocturne" – 3:30
  12. "Recreation Myth" – 3:53

Personnel

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