Black Flag – I Can See You 12"

Black Flag – I Can See You 12" "Released as a clearing house release some three years after the band ended, I Can see You was more of a footnote than a turning point for Black Flag. (To be fair, the bland cover, which followed in the stead of some of the most iconic music art-ever, didn't help). Recorded sometime in 1985 with the Roessler/Stevenson lineup, the release exhibited the traits of the band’s near-final period.The title track was almost experimental in nature, with Rollins dueting off himself in a sing song nature while calling out “Don’t stab me in the back.” It would have added another layer to the release is the band was mocking generic “stabbed in the back” hardcore lyrics, but it was more likely that this was simply Rollins and Ginn at their most self-serious.Meanwhile, Ginn was full into his dirt-metal mode, opting for huge, off-kilter riffs that that flitted between the catchiness of the band’s early period and more odd-tempo jazz posturing. Each four of these tracks