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Blood Visions is the debut studio album by American punk rock singer and songwriter Jay Reatard, formerly of the Reatards. Just prior to Jay Reatard's death in 2010, he sold the rights to the record to Fat Possum Records, after which In the Red Records ceased production and distribution of the record.

Jay Reatard’s reputation was to smash disco balls and get in on-stage fights—the kind of guy who tried to make people laugh by shooting bottle rockets out his ass. As wild and ridiculous as he was, he took his music seriously.

The album is a portrait of a moony-eyed murderer. As a boy, he starts attacking his own family. When he falls in love, he lurks in the shadows and watches her from afar. "I won't stop until you're dead,/ because of voices in my head," he sings on "Fading All Away." This is the stuff of horror movies—love that leads to obsession, graduates to stalking, and culminates in murder. It's a narrative framed perfectly by his performance. -Evan Minsker of Pitchfork 9.1/10

1. Blood Visions

2. Greed, MOney, Useless Children

3. It's so Easy

4. My Shadow

5. My Family

6. Death Is Forming

7. Oh It's Such a Shame

8. Not a Subsitute

9. Nightmares

10. I See You Standing There

11. We Who Wait

12. Fading All Away

13. Turning Blue

14. Puppet Man

15. Waiting for Something