Repeater

Fugazi’s second album for Dischord Records strips post-hardcore to its essentials—angular guitar interplay, polyrhythmic bass work, and Ian MacKaye’s declarative vocals cutting through sparse arrangements. Repeater abandons the noise-rock excess of earlier punk records for something more cerebral and controlled, each song a tightly wound mechanism of stop-start dynamics and dissonant harmonies. The result feels simultaneously minimalist and urgent, a blueprint that would influence indie rock and underground music for decades.