RUDIMENTARY PENI - The E.P's of R.P (2026 Reissue) RUDIMENTARY PENI

Unavailable since its original release on the CRASS side label Corpus Christi in 1987, the much-bootlegged compilation The E.P’s Of R.P. by Rudimentary Peni finally gets an official reissue on Sealed Records.

The LP collects both Rudimentary Peni 7” releases pre-Death Church LP, completing the trilogy of the band’s first-era recordings before their initial hiatus.

The A side contains the band’s stunning debut, a breakneck 12-song 7” EP recorded in 1981 at Street Level Studios and originally released on their Outer Himalayan label. From the first track, Rudimentary Peni pull you in and aurally assault your ears, creating the template for many to follow. It’s abrasive, sharp, intricate, with supreme musicianship and a unique dark sense of humour. They created a perfect, demented universe of twisted, poetic, needle-in-the-red punk, often imitated and never truly matched.

Flip over for the follow-up, the 11-track 7” Farce, originally released in 1982 on CRASS Records. Like most records on the label, it benefits massively from John Loder’s engineering and Penny Rimbaud’s production. Farce never lets up the intensity, with twisted melodies, a locked-in rhythm section, and Nick Blinko’s much-copied anguished vocals, delivered like his life depends on it. It’s energetic, manic, and over 40 years later, nothing comes close to these two EPs.

While both EPs were originally packed in Nick Blinko’s artwork, he created a masterpiece of dark, intricate art with microscopic detail to house the collection. You can literally get lost in it for hours. This reissue faithfully replicates that vision, adding a new printed inner sleeve and lyric inser