Refused's The Shape of Punk to Come Gets Three-Disc Deluxe Reissue

The Shape of Punk to Come, the classic 1998 album from the art-damaged Swedish hardcore band Refused, never quite lived up to its title. It didn't, after all, anticipate the arrival of the guylinered MySpace emo bands who have clogged Warped Tour bills in the years since. The album took some of greatest trends of 90s hardcore (the angular frenzy of Born Against, the free-jazz leanings and revolutionary slogan-slinging of Nation of Ulysses) and distilled them into a towering, impeccably produced ...

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