Various: Bloodstains Across Yugoslavia 12"

The majority of the bands on the Novi Punk Val album – and this one – were from the Slovenian and Croatian scenes, which means that, as an overview, Bloodstains Across Yugoslavia is a little skewed as it doesn’t feature many of the Serbian groups of the time. Some of those – notably Idoli, Radnička Kontrola and Šarlo Akrobata were among the best Yugoslav punk/new wave bands of all, but to make up for their absence, Bloodstains.. features a handful of tracks by one of the first and most popular Serbian punk bands, Belgrade’s Pekinška Patka (“Peking Duck”.) As their name suggests, Pekinška Patka were not, ideologically speaking, one of the heavier bands of the era, but nevertheless the album opens with a couple of their storming classics. Those two songs are in fact both sides of the band’s second single, “Bolje Da Nosim Kratku Kosu”/”Ori Ori” from 1980. The A-side is a catchy new wave anthem about the new wave, light-hearted but full of attitude, the gist being that long hair and hard r