Since most of our Bloglin Contributors seem to be taking a couple days off from posting anything I thought what the fuck, i’ll start a new series to go along with Awesomely Awful Albums. This time however the focus is on just unearthing some long forgotten or just ignored bands that sadly never got the exposure they deserved.

I’m starting with one of my favorites, Olympia, Washington’s Satisfact. Lead by Matt Steinke who was also the mastermind behind Mocket & Octant (Both of whom will end up here at some point). Like with most scenes, they usually start long before you or anyone truly realizes whats going on, and by the time you do you’re 5 steps into a seconds wave of it and it just builds from there until sputtering out leaving the few standing who have managed to transcend being labeled (Kind of like in Streetwear). Satisfact were at the forefront of (what could be looked back to now) a short and mostly (I feel) ignored post-punk scene during the mid to late 90s. Along with Long Hind Legs, Romania, Antarctica, My Favorite, Speedking & The Faint, they eventually helped pave the way for the largescale and successful indie rock post-punk revival that occurred during the earlier part of this century with bands like Interpol, Bloc Party, The Liars & The Rapture. Which was then the eventual catalyst watered down mainstream push of the Killers & The Bravery. Which as is almost always the case the

Sadly most of those early bands never put out more than an EP or no more than an albums worth of material, Satisfact, My Favorite & The Faint being the main exceptions. Satisfact penned 3 awesome albums driven by cold vocals, dark synths and spastic guitar riffs that set the mood of dancing your night away in your bedroom while you pined over some girl. While they never reached the eventual popularity of the Faint (who somehow failed to really breakthrough during the “dance-punk” explosion), It was Satisfact’s first album The Unwanted Sounds of Satisfact that totally drove me to discover and fall in love with Gang of Four, The Fall & as result countless other post-punk bands.

The Unwanted Sounds of Satisfact was sadly a very apt name for their first album. It was a dollar bin staple for quite a while and is still a cheap and easy used CD find on Amazon. All of their albums actually can actually be had for probably under $10 including shipping on Amazon and all three of them are excellent. I encourage anyone who is a fan of the kind of music mentioned here to them up! Unfortunately Matthew Steinke doesn’t seem to have any interest in starting up a new band. He spends most of his time as a visual artists these days painting and constructing all sorts of strange self powered robotic type instruments.

Head over to their fan run Myspace page to hear some Satisfact!