IGNITION

One of the less celebrated bands on the Dischord label, Ignition mainly offered D.C.-style emocore of the post-<a href="spotify:artist:62sC6lUEWRjbFqXpMmOk4G">Fugazi</a>/<a href="spotify:artist:1FIzwiROYEiAdCClC6Kvly">Rites of Spring</a>/<a href="spotify:artist:2KytjqKNcs59u2JaCKNT9E">Dag Nasty</a> variety. Vocalist Alec MacKaye -- brother of <a href="spotify:artist:62sC6lUEWRjbFqXpMmOk4G">Fugazi</a>'s Ian, and formerly of <a href="spotify:artist:4PeH0LM0QG4jFfzSmU0SuB">the Untouchables</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:3su2IgaxD1B1RqaK5a6GFw">the Faith</a> -- reteamed with ex-<a href="spotify:artist:3su2IgaxD1B1RqaK5a6GFw">Faith</a> bandmate Chris Bald, now on guitar instead of bass, in the summer of 1986. (Bald, along with most of the other <a href="spotify:artist:3su2IgaxD1B1RqaK5a6GFw">Faith</a> members, had been part of the recently defunct emo pioneers <a href="spotify:artist:5Lzz2tZ2hKO8PDslKBQgZL">Embrace</a>.) They were joined by the rhythm section of bassist Chris Thomson, who occasionally doubled on saxophone, and drummer Dante Ferrando, who'd previously played with D.C. scene staples <a href="spotify:artist:7btiezmaxNH3xDRj536B5W">Iron Cross</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:1O1KSL8MigYkNx3p2PXjA9">Gray Matter</a>. The group debuted with two 7" singles, "Sinker" and "Anger Means," in early 1988, and followed those with their debut album, Machination, later in the year. They also contributed a track to the Dischord-released benefit compilation State of the Union. A further EP, the six-song The Orafying Mysticle of...Ignition, appeared in early 1990, but spelled the end of the group. Thomson went away to college in Wisconsin, where he fronted <a href="spotify:artist:6acCAhaTJb2zMUr7S027Zh">Circus Lupus</a>, and would later form both <a href="spotify:artist:314Xoo3vw8Wk6D51n7Ud78">Monorchid</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:41e5Q5h8TcsZ7chQhcMxAz">Skull Kontrol</a>; Alec MacKaye, meanwhile, spent the mid-'90s performing in <a href="spotify:artist:1jn1Tweh9cozcWwQB3JdI6">the Warmers</a>. ~ Steve Huey, Rovi

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