V/A Red Xerox Chicago Youth Beat 2020-2025 LP [Desert Island]

Diesel X. The Flaming Racers. Porcupine Love. These could have been our band names. We could have been surfers in Tulsa, elephant trainers in Thailand, ants…any number of things. A lot could have gone differently. But somehow, against all odds and logic, we became a group of punk rockers in Chicago, Illinois, making what felt like an atomic love bomb, and we knew it. This was self-actualization in real time: manifestos and stratagems, calls to arms. Zines planted at every Blue Line stop and coffee shop we could find. Frances B. playing trombone and trumpet at the same time. Niko K. shrieking like a newly born pterodactyl, and a whole generation of newly born pterodactyls alongside him, stomping and kicking. Not crying for their mothers, but for youth expression, liberated bodies, dance spaces, rave-ups, and hops.If any of this sounds silly, you are a silly person. But if it sounds like a future you want to be part of, welcome. This compilation is not a reminiscence of the good old days or a document of a time long gone, it is NOW! Please join us. The future is yours and mine.
- Kai Slater

A1	Horsegirl (2)–	Sea Life Sandwich Boy
A2	Friko (3)–	Get Numb To It!
A3	Lifeguard (3)–	Crate
A4	Post Office Winter–	Mother, Sister, Nurse
A5	Dwaal Troupe–	En Utero
B1	Sharp Pins–	You Turned off the Light
B2	Current Union TM–	Dukkha Coca
B3	TV Buddha–	Baby, Woah!
B4	P. Noid–	Go Somewhere Else
B5	Amaya Pena–	Song for Avi
B6	Free Range (4)–	Lost and Found
B7	Uniflora–	Two or More