Fist City is the first studio album by the American queer punk band Tribe 8, released in 1995.[3][4] The band supported the album with a North American tour.[5]
Trouser Press called the album "impressive," writing that "behind growly singer Lynn Breedlove, the group’s rock barrels along with as much intelligent raunch as the lyrics, a guitar-drenched punk charge that means business but stays well within safe musical boundaries."[9]The Washington Post thought that "musically, these songs are not distinctive, but they are suitably vehement ... 'Neanderthal Dyke' admits, 'I never read Dworkin/I ride a big bike/Feminist theory gets me uptight'."[10] The Chicago Tribune wrote: "With its buzz-saw twin-guitar assault and hammering rhythms, Tribe 8 works a ferocious hardcore edge."[11]
The Advocate deemed the album a "sludgy blend of metal and thrash punk," but wrote that "the simple fact that its members are Asian, black, and white lesbians playing angry rock'n'roll makes the band revolutionary."[12]The Boston Globe called the band "riotously non-PC."[13]Miami New Times lamented that the album was "as predictable and witless as anything by W.A.S.P. and Motley Crue."[14]
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