Devo Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! MFSL (180g 45RPM 2LP)Vinyl (Use code: FREESHIPPING at Checkout Two Orders or More UK Only) Pre-order

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Social Satire, Deadpan Humor, and Twitching New-Wave Elements Protest Conformity on Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!: Devo Debut Includes “Jocko Homo” and Deconstructionist Cover of “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”

Hear the 1978 Record Rolling Stone Ranks the 252nd Greatest Album of All Time in Reference Sound: Mobile Fidelity’s Numbered-Edition 180g 45RPM 2LP Set Reveals Copious Nuances and Textures 

1/4” / 15 IPS analog master to DSD 256 to analog console to lathe

The satirical protest, spastic structures, and deadpan humor of Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! run so deep that it took decades for the music cognoscenti to come around and appreciate the record on its own terms. Ranked the 252nd Greatest Album of All Time by Rolling Stone and amid the 100 best efforts of the 1970s by Pitchfork, Devo's radical debut helped steer the new-wave movement that followed. And as fate would have it, it is more relevant in the 21st century than at the time of its release.

Sourced from the original master tapes, pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing in California, and housed in a Stoughton gatefold jacket, Mobile Fidelity's numbered-edition 180g 45RPM 2LP set presents the 1978 benchmark in reference-grade sound. Benefitting from the extra groove space on this first-ever 45RPM version by playing with enhanced definition, deep-black backgrounds, and ultra-quiet surfaces, it reveals previously buried nuances and portrays soundstages whose scope is limited only by the capacity of your audio gear.

The presence, clarity, and detail of this reissue render in three-dimensional fashion the textures, tones, and effects critical to the music. Though Brian Eno butted heads with the band during the recording process, the merits of his production emerge like never before. The treatments that turn Devo’s keyboards into the equivalent of futuristic machines; the metallic effects and pointed sharpness of the percussion; the various voices that emerge in the distance; the sonic symmetry of the arrangements; the herky-jerk motion of the singing; the stickiness of the bizarre time signatures: Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! comes across like a pointillistic painting seen up-close. 

Side One:

1. Uncontrollable Urge
2. (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
3. Praying Hands

Side Two:

1. Space Junk
2. Mongoloid
3. Jocko Homo

Side Three:

1. Too Much Paranoias
2. Gut Feeling/(Slap Your Mammy)

Side Four:

1. Come Back Jonee
2. Sloppy (I Saw My Baby Gettin’)
3. Shrivel-Up