In 1982, Certain General signed with the New York independent record label Labor Records and issued their first release, an EP called Holiday of Love.  The mini-album was produced by Peter Holsapple of the dB's and mixed by Michael Gira of the experimental rock band Swans – "an interesting pairing if there ever was one," said Nick West in a review for Bucketfull of Brains.  (I don't know much about Swans, except for their startling 1988 cover of the Joy Division masterpiece, "Love Will Tear Us Apart").  According to Wikipedia:  "Holiday [of Love] garnered rave reviews, among them a Trouser Press piece that cited the disc as being created 'for all the teenage devils of the world'." 

(March 2015)