James Murphy on Suicide: Alan Vega and Martin Rev (1980)

The second Suicide album is produced by Ric Ocasek from The Cars. He was a big fan. I think he made them a little more layered. There’s this amazing use of professional synthesizers, but it still retains a lot of weirdness and toughness. It’s not the record that everyone thinks of when you think of Suicide but it’s a really remarkable record and it kinda sets up what’s so great about their solo careers afterwards. I bought it because I was a Suicide fan – it was harder to find, it took me a while to get my hands on it.

by James Murphy,
who in LCD Soundsystem’s “Losing My Edge,” sings about being there during the early rehearsals of the notorious band back in 1975.