Faith: Subject to Change + Early Demos 12"

For my money, the Faith's Subject to Change is THEE sleeper hit of the early Dischord catalog. As I noted in my description of the recent Gray Matter reissue, DC's Revolution Summer bands basically took the energy and aggression of early harDCore, took out the kind of bonehead elements, and grafted that onto the more song-oriented approach of '77-era British punk. On Subject to Change,, the Faith were the first band to make this leap and, in my opinion, by far the best. As someone who loved the energy of early hardcore but wanted actual songs, and who loved the dynamic, song-based approach of '77-era British punk but wished it was just a little more intense, Subject to Change is pretty much the perfect punk record. Expanding their sound from their early raw hardcore approach, by this time the Faith had added a second guitar player and the dynamic interplay between them is just mind-bending. However, because for years these tracks were only available tacked onto the end of the Faith / V