Release Date: 9/18/2026

Social Satire, Deadpan Humor, and Twitching New-Wave Elements Protest Conformity on Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!: Debut Devo Record Includes “Jocko Homo” and Deconstructionist Cover of “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction”

Hear the 1977 Set Rolling Stone Ranks the 252nd Greatest Album of All Time in Reference Sound on Disc: Mobile Fidelity’s Numbered-Edition Hybrid SACD Plays with Superb Clarity and Detail

The satirical protest, spastic structures, and deadpan humor of Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! run so deep that it took decades for the music cognoscenti to come around and appreciate the record on its own terms. Ranked the 252nd Greatest Album of All Time by Rolling Stone and amid the 100 best efforts of the 1970s by Pitchfork, Devo’s radical debut helped steer the new wave movement that followed. And as fate would have it, it is more relevant in the 21st century than at the time of its release.

Sourced from the original master tapes and housed in mini-LP-style packaging, Mobile Fidelity’s numbered-edition hybrid SACD presents the 1977 benchmark in reference sound on disc. The presence, clarity, and detail of this reissue render in three-dimensional fashion the textures, nuances, tones, and effects critical to the music. Though Brian Eno butted heads with the band during the recording process, the merits of his production emerge like never before. The sonic treatments that turn Devo’s keyboards into the equivalent of futuristic machines; the metallic effects and pointed sharpness of the percussion; the crispness of the arrangements; the herky-jerk motion of the singing; the stickiness of the bizarre time signatures: Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! comes across like a pointillistic painting seen up-close.

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