LP
Catalog No.: FTF-500
Release date: April 17, 2010
Length: 46 minutes
Year: 1980/1981

An important and influential fixture on the early Chicago (post) Punk scene, DA had its feet planted firmly in the moment while focused on a future yet to come. DA, while influenced by psych, punk and noise, created a body of work startling in its depth and originality. The inventive rhythms of original drummer Dawn Fisher and the muscular backbeats of her successor, Robert Furem layed a propulsive framework for the intertwined guitar work of Gaylene Goudreau and David Thomas. The angular fluidity of their interplay became the perfect backdrop for singer and bassist Lorna Donley's introspective lyricis and expressive voice. Personal and obsessive, strange yet familiar, the music of DA is ripe for re-discovery.

SIDE A
1. 1:28
2. Dark Rooms
3. Silent Snow
4. Mirrors
5. Time Will Be Kind
6. This Doubt
7. Fish Shit

SIDE B
8. Strangers
9. Next to Nothing
10. The Killer
11. Oh Boy!
12. Three Shadows
13. The Good's Gone

DA:
Lorna Donley - Bass & Vocals & Invisible Sleigh Bells
Gaylene Goudreau - Guitar & backing Vocals & Attitude
David C. Thomas - Guitar & backing vocals & Scraping
Dawn Fisher - Drumming (Trks 1,2,4,7,11,12,13)
Robert Furem - Drumming (Trks 3,6,8,9,10,14,15)