Fugazi - Red Medicine
How to use the reserve function
If you'd like to purchase items from our site but want to save money on shipping costs, you can use our reserve function to combine your orders over an unlimited period of time, and ship them together for one combined shipping price when you are ready.
Just hit the 'reserve' button at the checkout page as your shipping option when you've finished making your order, and your order will automatically be held in reserve here until you are ready for us to ship everything to you.You can keep as many orders in reserve with us via our site as you like, until you are ready to ship. Just send us an email when you are ready to ship your reserve orders, and we will get in touch with the combined shipping price, or ship for free if you have exceeded the minimum order amount for free shipping to your address.
Can the reserve function be used to get free shipping? Yes - If your combined order total is more than £50 within the UK, over £150 within the EU, or over £225 worldwide, we'll ship your order to you via courier service, for free.
Here's a step by step guide to using it:
1. Click on the account icon to log into your account.
If you don't have an account, please click 'create account' to make one. If you had an account on the old RWDFWD site, please create a new one with the same email address used on the old site - this will ensure your previous orders are brought through to your new account.
2. Add records to your cart as normal.
3. When you're ready to check out, select 'ship'.
4. Then select 'Reserve items' on the shipping method list, then continue to payment.
5. Once payment is complete, your order will show in your account as 'unfulfilled'. We will have put all the products aside in reserve for you to combine with other orders and ship later in bulk.
6. When you're ready to ship all the items you have in reserve, email us on info@rwdfwd.com and we will calculate the shipping due and arrange for payment to be taken.
7. Sit tight and wait for your records to arrive in the post!
Free Shipping?
We offer free shipping on orders over a certain value
UK orders over £50
EU orders over £150
Worldwide over £225
This is automatically applied at checkout and reserve orders also count towards it.
EU Order info
Unfortunately, the UK is no longer part of the EU - This means that certain shipments sent to addresses there from us may be subject to tax and / or import duty - All orders sent from RWDWD are sent ‘DDU’ - That is, duty unpaid - any import tax and/or duty is the sole responsibility of the buyer.
If you would like to use our reserve function to group several orders into one large shipment, we can arrange for it to be sent tax and duty pre-paid so you don’t have to worry about it at a later date - Contact us for more information.
The most experimental album from one of the most experimental post-hardcore bands that ever was.
Red Medicine sees Fugazi move into much more experimental territory than on previous releases, making use of studio production techniques to further enhance their already unique sound. all tracks on this album were written in a one month period in a small country house in New England. Thirteen tracks were then taken to the Dischord label’s favoured recording studio ‘Inner Ear Studios’ , run by engineer Don Zientara.
There is an essay to be written on each of the 13 tracks on Red Medicine, 45 minutes of complex signs and signifiers both musical and lyrical, Ian MacKaye lyrics are wide open to interpretation and seem to take on new meaning with each listen - ‘You’re eyes, like crashing jets, fixed in stained glass but not religious’ for one example on the lead track.
Red Medicine opens with ‘Do You Like Me’, starting with a minute of pure sonic experimentation, heavily distorted guitars and crashing drums before abruptly breaking into a relatively upbeat track, setting the tone for much of the album. At the mid point on the disc, we are treated to the melancholic ecstasy of ‘Forensic Scene’, the sounds of two distorted guitars screaming in unison rise to the highest point of the album on ‘By You’, MacKaye and Picciotto locked in harmony before bringing everything to a very abrupt halt only to rise up again, it is this tension that really defines the album as a whole, balanced disharmony.
Two tracks later the The most obviously dub influenced track, aptly named ‘Version’ makes the most of their gang of FX, throwing distortion around the track, adding haunting delay to the clarinet and the perfectly late drum hits, all sit around a killer bassline. Further reading of the liner notes reveals a Sly & Robbie composition credit.
A crucial album for all collections, one that has not only stood the test of time but one that becomes more intriguing with each listen, at RwdFwd we have been listening to this for over a decade and are still picking out subtle details, in short, this is a must have.
Full tracklist
1. Do You Like Me
2. Bed for the Scraping
3. Latest Disgrace
4. Birthday Pony
5. Forensic Scene
6. Combination Lock
7. Fell, Destroyed
8. By You
9. Version
10. Target
11. Back to Base
12. Downed City
13. Long Distance Runner
Do You Like Me
Combination Lock
Version
Forensic Scene