Four songs from the Proletariat’s earlier demo tape surfaced on vinyl along with 14 more songs to comprise the band’s first LP, Soma Holiday , hailed by rock critic Robert Christgau as “the hardcore debut of 1983”, even as Christgau noted their sound was not hardcore per se. Named for the drug in Aldous Huxley ‘s Brave New World , the album demonstrates the band’s art punk roots, with lyrics examining social issues from Brown’s distant Marxist perspective, critiquing capitalism without embracing determinist revolutionary dogma. The band’s members were themselves members of the working class, most of whom had dropped out of college to drive trucks and labor elsewhere.
first LP Soma Holiday
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