{"product_id":"devo-duty-now-for-the-future-numbered-limited-edition-180g-45rpm-2lp","title":"Devo Duty Now for the Future Numbered Limited Edition 180g 45rpm 2LP (Use code: FREESHIPPING at Checkout Two Orders or More UK Only) Pre-order","description":"\u003cp\u003ePlease note this is a pre-order as soon as we have this in stock, we will ship immediately. \u003cbr\u003ePop music needs a big enema.\" Devo created \u003cem\u003eDuty Now for the Future\u003c\/em\u003e with that mission statement, relayed to the press by co-founding bassist\/vocalist Gerald Casale, in mind. Though unfairly pegged by some as an example of the common sophomore slump, the record spurred the group's interest in electronic instrumentation, extended its penchant for biting social satire, and contained another transformative cover song in the form of \"Secret Agent Man.\" Above all, the 1979 work proved the Ohio pranksters were anything but a joke even if they would have to wait one more year until for their mainstream breakthrough.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSourced from the original master tapes, mastered by engineer Krieg Wunderlich, pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing in California, and housed in a Stoughton gatefold jacket, Mobile Fidelity's numbered-edition 180g 45RPM 2LP set presents \u003cem\u003eDuty Now for the Future\u003c\/em\u003e in audiophile-grade sound. Benefitting from the extra groove space on this first-ever 45RPM version, it plays with enhanced definition, deep-black backgrounds, and ultra-quiet surfaces.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThough certain band members later expressed regret with some of his decisions, the merits of Ken Scott's production emerge like never before. A lurking edginess serves as a signpost in Devo's progression before it fully embraced keyboards as a primary tool. Guitars possess punch and grit and, along with the crisp arrangements, are sharpened with an ear toward accuracy and vibrancy. It all helps give \u003cem\u003eDuty Now for the Future\u003c\/em\u003ea direct immediacy that answers the complaints of listeners who felt the affair too processed or sterilized.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNotably, a majority of the material here stems from the same grab bag of songs Devo banked before Warner Bros. signed it to a deal. The album marks a capstone to Phase One of a career that for all intents and purposes began in 1973. And just like many of the group's performances of that era, \u003cem\u003eDuty Now for the Future\u003c\/em\u003e remains just as famous for the critical disdain it inspired as the music itself. A vicious review in \u003cem\u003eRolling Stone\u003c\/em\u003e — the very publication that a few decades later would trumpet the band as one of the most important of its age — ended with the writer offering to send readers shards of the LP he planned on smashing to bits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePerhaps he just needed to experience this new-wave effort with the restored sound that makes everything now feel so explosive and urgent. Whatever the case, the songs hold up and, amid a contemporary period which gives increasing license to artificial intelligence and behemoth conglomerates, seem more apt than ever before.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConsider \"Blockhead,\" which skewers the predictable appearances and numb-to-the-world actions of a rule follower. Or the similarly themed \"Clockout,\" an uptempo ditty whose thumbing-its-nose bravado and sardonic lyrics send up corporate culture with an irresistible smirk. As for the wiry, hard-hitting urgency of \"Wiggly World\" and Mark Mothersbaugh's loud declaration that \"They say the fittest shall survive\/Yet the unfit may live\": Evidence these art-school rabble-rousers still had some punk fury to flush out of their system. And the sincere allure of the charged power pop and wishful circumstances of \"The Day My Baby Gave Me a Surprize\" cannot be denied.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003csection id=\"features\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eFeatures\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNumbered, Limited Edition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e180g Vinyl\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDouble LP\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e45rpm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRemastered by Krieg Wunderlich from the 1\/4\" \/ 15 IPS Dolby A Analog Master to DSD 256 to Analog Console to Lathe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePressed at Fidelity Record Pressing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStoughton Gatefold Jacket\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFirst-Ever 45rpm Version\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003csection id=\"selections\"\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eSelections\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eSide One:\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDevo Corporate Anthem\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClockout\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTiming X\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWiggly World\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eSide Two:\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBlockhead\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStrange Pursuit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eS.I.B. 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