Evolution (Subhumans EP)

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Evolution
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EP by
Released1983
Recorded29 January 1983
Genre Punk rock
Label Bluurg Records
Producer Subhumans
Subhumans chronology
The Day The Country Died
(1983)
Evolution
(1983)
Time Flies... But Aeroplanes Crash
(1983)

Evolution is the fourth EP released by the anarcho-punk band Subhumans. It was also the band's first vinyl release on their own label, Bluurg Records [1] (bar the "Wessex '82" split EP). The EP was also released as part of the 1985 "EP-LP" compilation, which compiles the band's first four EP's onto a single record.

Contents

Track listing

1. "Evolution"

2. "So Much Money"

3. "Germ"

4. "Not Me"

5. “Song No.35” (untitled bonus track on the original record; later to be named on the “Unfinished Business” EP)

Personnel

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References

  1. Glasper, Ian (15 August 2023). Silence Is No Reaction: Forty Years of Subhumans. Oakland: PM Press. p. 199. ISBN   978-1-62963-550-7.