Label: Touch And Go
Reissued 2013, Originally released 1985
Remastered by Steve Albini and Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering. BIG BLACK was started by Steve Albini in 1982 while he was living in Evanston, Illinois, and attending Northwestern University. For Bulldozer, Albini recruited Jeff Pezzati (NAKED RAYGUN) to help him out on bass. Santiago Durango, another founding member of NAKED RAYGUN, joined them on guitar. In 1983, together with live drummer Pat Byrne, they recorded the Bulldozer EP. It was initially released in a limited edition galvanized metal album jacket on Fever Records. By 1984, the band did some touring and signed a deal with Homestead Records. They recorded one more time with Pezzati on bass, which resulted in their Homestead debut the Racer-X EP.
Track listing:
- Racer X
- Shotgun
- The Ugly American
- Deep Six
- Sleep!
- The Big Payback