FINALLY!!! Re-released on vinyl after 40 years! Out on September 25th, 2020, in collaboration with Superior Viaduct USA.

"Disturbing Domestic Peace, The Ex's debut album, appeared mere months after their first single, 1980's All Corspes Smell The Same. Originally released on the band's own Verrecords (they made up different label names with each record), the LP falls squarely within a punk idiom and, at the same time, shows this influential Dutch group's restless energy. Terrie Ex's guitar serves up vectors of percussive pulse, fraying the edges of the music's squared-off rhythms. Vocalist G.W. Sok – an anarchist Dziga Vertov with a mic – observes, declaims and condemns across a set of interrelated political concerns that would return in Ex-music for years to come.
While The Ex channel the poise and principled attack of Crass or Flux Of Pink Indians, they create a unique declamatory sound all their own – trailing brilliant flashes of color in the wake of punk's monochrome palette. Offering ten songs in only twenty-two minutes, Disturbing Domestic Peace lays bare a vivid snapshot of a truly singular band who (at the time) were just finding their feet."

This first-time vinyl reissue comes with bonus 7-inch, inserts and 20-page booklet.

LP Track Listing:

1. The Sky Is Blue Again
2. Map
3. Outlook-Army
4. Sucking Pig
5. A Sense Of Tumour
6. Meanwhile
7. Rules
8. Squatsong
9. Warning-Shot
10. New Wars

Bonus 7-inch Track Listing:

1. Introduction
2. Human Car
3. Punk
4. Horse

Terrie (guitar), G.W. Sok (vocals), Bas (bass), Ome Geurt (drums).

Recorded at Joke's Koeienverhuurbedrijf, Schellingwoude, Netherlands.
Produced by Dolf Planteijdt.

The Sky Is Blue Again

Reviews

"This is prime stuff. It's primitive when compared with their current wide-ranging output, but even then they were embellishing their their scratchy politico-punk with some interesting instrumental touches. Morse code keyboards, a chipped-flint guitar sound, distorted vocals, and the rhythm section's implacable forward motion make this worth a listen even if you don't care what they had to say."

"What makes them interesting, is their original musical approach, not hindered by technical ingenuity."

Digital album available from Bandcamp.