MERCENÁRIAS – Trashland [fvll albvm] (1988)

Brazilian 80s rock produced bands of all sorts, including one of the best female punk and post-punk groups ever, Mercenárias. In 1988, signed a contract with EMI to release their second LP, Trashland. With a beautiful cover, made by Michel Spitale, the album was voted best of the year by BIZZ magazine.

Mercenárias are a Brazilian all-female rock band formed in São Paulo in 1982, by bassist Sandra Coutinho, vocalist Rosália Munhoz and guitarist Ana Machado. With lyrics that heavily criticized Brazilian government and society (and sometimes the Catholic Church as well), their sonority was constantly compared to Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy Division, Sex Pistols and above all The Slits.

The band ended in 1988, but reunited in 2006 with a new line-up; further changes on the band’s line-up would be made in early 2015 and then in 2017. The only original founding member remaining is Coutinho.