Title: Devo – Duty Now For The Future
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1979 / New Wave / Art Punk / Akron
Matrix #: BSK-3337
Condition: NM, sounds great. cover is in good shape.
Cultural Facts:
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Political Science Devo’s whole concept grew from the idea of “de-evolution,” a dark joke that modern society was becoming less human, not more advanced.
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Personal Struggle The band’s worldview was shaped in part by the 1970 Kent State shootings in Ohio, a trauma that deeply affected Gerald Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh’s generation.
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Studio Lore Produced in the post-Eno period, the album showed Devo pushing harder into their own mechanical identity rather than leaning on outside art-rock guidance.
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