Christgau Consumer Guide

"AVENGERS" (CD) These 14 cuts constitute the recorded output of a late-’70s San Fran punk band best remembered for “We Are The One,” the finest U.S. indie single of 1977, and a 1979 Steve Jones-produced EP. The notes extol their “breakthrough—however brief—into a vision of life expressing firsthand passion and revolt,” but to me Penelope Houston sounds like a valley girl with too much attitude.