Record Store Day Black Friday 2022.

Limited edition transparent clear vinyl.

Devo’s co-founder Gerald Casale has a new record out for the Black Friday Record Store Day beano. ‘The Invisible Man’ is a six-track 12-inch EP on clear (“invisible”) vinyl. There’s a mix by Heaven 17’s Martyn Ware, which soundtracks the plasticised cartoonish video, in which Mr Casale is assailed by the Invisible Man himself who – wait, is he a penis? – is then beaten and wrestled to the ground by two female assassins. All this takes place on a yellow brick road under a Tellytubbies sun with digital Van Gogh swirling vegetation. Casale’s vivid aesthetic remains as urgent and peculiar as ever.

Alongside three mixes of the title track, there are a further three lounge/EZ listening mixes of 2021’s ‘I’m Going To Pay You Back’, which featured on the album ‘Devo’s Gerald V. Casale AKA Jihad Jerry and the Evildoers’. It’s all very soothing, in a typically Devo way, which of course tends towards to unsettling and strange.

The new track features Steve Bartek of Oingo Boingo and drum legend Josh Freese, who has been Devo’s main drummer for several decades, as well as providing beats for NIN and many others.