The first truly immersive punk-music album. Superseding the revved-up post-glam musical template of their contemporaries in England’s mythical, fashion-based “punk” movement, The Adverts produced a claustrophobic wreckage that surges and collapses in nightmarish swathes of voided electric sound. Opening with ‘One Chord Wonders” and closing with “Gary Gilmore’s Eyes” – two crucial 7-inch singles – Crossing The Red Sea With augments this sonic fabric with singer T.V. Smith’s dark visions of burnings, explodings, killings, ravings, drownings and other fractured eruptions of violence from a disintegrating society, whole cities razed by concatenations of spontaneous teenage combustion. A seminal recording in the lineage of music for outsiders.