Capital Punishment: Roadkill 12″

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If you were told that a band of NYC teenagers who met in 1979 decided to form a band influenced by Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle, Brian Eno, Chrome and released a privately pressed record, it would be enough to pique your interest. When you find out the band consisted of a future Supreme Court Justice for Arizona, a Professor of Slavic Studies, a musician/documentarian whose family built the Brooklyn Bridge, and an A-list world-famous actor the story goes from being about another rare, privately pressed recording that’s been re-discovered, into something that’s pretty incredible.

Captured Tracks is thrilled to reissueCapital Punishment’ssole 1982 LPRoadkillon vinyl. For a band of high school weirdos who actually got their shit together enough to make a completely uncommercial album with no means to sell it shows a lot of determination, persistence and perhaps insanity. But it’s always those kinds of weirdos who go on to do great things just askJudge Peter Swann,Professor Peter Zusi,Kriss RoeblingandBen Stiller. The band has been rehearsing and hopes to play some special shows in 2018-19.

“I was in a band in high school – it was called Capital Punishment, and it was sort of a post punk-neo-goth-urban-experimental band…I was sort of the Ringo of the band.”-Ben Stiller