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<\/a>Shell out upwards to $150 for the original and only artifact from Scotland’s Fire Exit if you must\u2014men are known to make a fetish of such things\u2014but be fully aware that Last Laugh Records has been making owning those obscuro punk singles a more easily attainable reality. Case in point is \u201cTime Wall.\u201d Though it\u2019s been a perennial addition to many a compilation (from Killed By Death to Bloodstains), it\u2019s still a relatively unknown gem from a bountiful era. Fire Exit formed in 1977, the year it all broke across the kingdom, yet they didn\u2019t cut a record until 1978, pitting them somewhere between the explosion and their quick demise. The charm of \u201cTime Wall\u201d is the urgency Fire Exit inject, sounding as if they were already bored to death by the thrift and painted-on rebellion of their peers. Alongside the Only Ones and The Stranglers, Fire Exit was examining what would happen if those amphetamine riffs were powered by imagination and had deft fingers doing the playing. Half the time, they have the dexterity of impassioned proto-metal, fitting in visceral solos with as many notes as two minutes are willing to allow. And what exactly is the \u201cTime Wall?\u201d A portal to a place where new wave is being considered, but pub bands lead the way? \u201cThinkin\u2019 About Myself\u201d is arguably unbaked (they couldn\u2019t make it through a second tune), though still vital as the antidote to side one’s poison. Absolutely essential.<\/p>\n