“ High Pressure Days”, The Units

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Here is one of my all time favorites. I saw them a couple times in LA back in the day. The Units were an American synthpunk band, founded in San Francisco in 1978 and active until 1984. They were one of America’s earliest electronic new wave bands, and have been cited (along with The Screamers and Suicide) as pioneers of synthpunk, also retrospectively known as “electropunk”. The Units were notable for their use of synthesizers in place of guitars, and multimedia performances featuring multiple projections of satirical, instructional films critical of conformity and consumerism.

In 2016, Futurismo released Animals They Dream About, the band’s previously unreleased second album originally recorded in 1982, including a live set from the Kabuki theater in San Francisco in which The Units opened for Bow Wow Wow. 


In 2016, FDH records from Philadelphia, PA rereleased The Units original debut EP from 1979, the hand stamped 7" four song e.p. entitled "UNITS", including a download of a 1979 live set at the Deaf Club. 

[Spotify] High Pressure Days