Sacred Bones Records have announced the release of a lost album from visual artist, musician, and poet Alan Vega, entitled Mutator, on April 23. Vega was born in Brooklyn in 1938. He co-founded the massively influential avant-garde band Suicide with Martin Rev in 1970, with whom he performed off and on throughout his life. Suicide’s debut album was included among Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, and it was a formative work in the invention of synth-punk, post-punk, art-rock, industrial music, and more. Vega’s name is synonymous with unfettered creativity. Through his years playing in Suicide, and all the way up until his death in 2016, Vega was constantly creating. This process naturally led to a wealth of material that didn’t see the light of day immediately wh...
