PETTY CRIME - Brighton, UK, 1999 7" DC PUNK just to match our name

just to match our name

At the time of this recording

psychological horror series Requiem became an instant hit

the long running post-genre group of which Parker is a member

Released on vinyl in edition of 500

PETTY CRIME - Brighton, UK, 1999 7" DC PUNK just to match our namePetty Crime was a UK band that existed for a few years at the end of the 1990s. Sharp, breathless, and petulant, they released one EP on Slampt in 1998: five songs that strung a tightrope between the bratty defiance of riot grrrl and the taut shove of postpunk. In 1999, they recorded three songs in a Brighton bedroom, a melodic and prickly blast that is somehow both deliberate and wild. The songs are strange, unpredictable, and urgent. They are