Black Flag – The Process of Weeding Out SST 037 (1985)
An EP that revolves around guitarist Greg Ginn melding hardcore punk with free jazz. It’s an interesting concept for an album (or EP at least), though the actual results do get a bit tedious, as exemplified by the title track. Ginn really doesn’t have the chops of a Blood Ulmer or Sonny Sharrock, and the rest of the band is by no means up to the task. There are some good moments, particularly on “Your Last Affront” and “Southern Rise”, but they aren’t really sustained. So, this is kind of an oddity of potential interest, but probably isn’t something that will earn lots of repeated listens even for dedicated Black Flag fans.