Some 42 years after its initial release, Drag City returns Circle X’s Prehistory to the vinyl format.

The Louisville-NYC art-punk-rockers insisted on carving a system beyond standard definition, their debut album existing bafflingly outside of time when first released in 1983. Decades later, they shall continue to exist as an extraordinary, near-unclassifiable band out of New York’s No Wave movement.

Circle X’s music has continued to grow through each further iteration of “the present times.” Prehistory was re-injected into the marketplace via Blue Chopsticks’ 2008 CD edition; at the time, David Grubbs’ affiliate label described the music as “a tire-burning left-turn… gritty and cloudy… the sound of unhurried, committed exploration.”