By co-opting Neu’s trademark “endless” beat and merging it with relentless “post-punk” guitar riffs, ex-punk band Wipers created the first noteworthy American album of that period to emerge outside the punk paradigm pursued by Germs and others. Youth Of America is a monster of forward propulsion that climaxes in the delirium of its title track, a surging mayhem of feedback, noise and effects that sustains the album’s deceptive velocity to its mind-bending conclusion.