Music

Is This Real? 1979

rock, punk 34 min 12 tracks zenorecords

Is This Real? is the debut studio album by the Portland, Oregon-based punk rock band Wipers, originally released on vinyl in January 1980 by Park Avenue Records. The album's release was preceded by the band's Better Off Dead EP. The album shows a more immediate punk sound than the band's successive records, which would take on longer, post-punk styles and structures.

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Character

Spare, character-led, grave and classical in form.

sparerichly built
character-ledplot-driven
gravecomic

Tracks

1Return of the Rat2:38
2Mystery1:48
3Up Front3:04
4Let’s Go Away1:49
5Is This Real?2:38
6Tragedy1:59
7Alien Boy3:22
8D-74:05
9Potential Suicide3:35
10Don’t Know What I Am2:58
11Window Shop for Love2:59
12Wait a Minute3:03

12 tracks, 34 minutes.

About the album

Artist: Wipers
Label: zenorecords
Type: Album
Format: Digital Media
Country: XW

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