We managed to get ahold of only a handful of copies of this obscure/rare release from post-No Wave noise outfit Dial, and we're unsure if this is something we'll be able to re-stock. Infraction is the 1997 debut album from Dial, a trio featuring Jacqui Ham (vocals, guitar) from the historic/cult NYC no-wave group Ut, who counted members of Sonic Youth among their fans back in the late 70's. Dial definitely has some of that atonal No Wave bleat, but this is something even uglier, a dank-basement invocation of Big Black-via-Siltbreeze Records noise smear, like Dead C having a collective nervous breakdown over a shambling drum machine while Jacgui's icy howls sound like some narcotized chanteuse. The band recorded this album onto cassette, and it's lo-fi as hell, the music softened of all of it's edges and muffled, making the songs sound way evil and blown, guitars being molested offscreen, cable buzz snaking around the edges of the songs, filling the room with dread. Totally murky noise rock and improvised, sludgy splat, great shit.