Look Again

The lost album from The Last. Recorded 40 years ago in 1980, Look Again has never been released until now. The Last were a seminal Los Angeles Punk band in the late 1970s and early 1980s, playing alongside The Go-Go’s, X, The Germs, and others of that era. This album was recorded in 1980 at Joe Julian of Berlin’s new studio and he insisted on doing the mixing himself. The band felt the songs were the best of their career but hated the mix to the point of shelving the record. Their manager had pressed up dozens of test pressings to send to labels – these were the only known copies in existence and now fetch over $800 on collector sites like Discogs.

The Last’s reputation in the early 1980’s Punk scene still looms large, influencing the likes of Henry Rollins of Black Flag and Rollins Band, Keith Morris of Circle Jerks, Redd Kross, X’s John Doe, The Go-Go’s Jane Wiedlin and Belinda Carlile.