Y Pants

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Just received a compilation cd from this female 70s/80s downtown NYC band. It includes the Y Pants EP on 99 Records (1980), a track "Magnetic Attraction" from ?Tellus #21 (1983), and "Beat It Down" LP on Glenn Branca's Neutral Records (1982).
It's on the Periodic Document label, out of Mpls MN. Copyright 1998.
Not sure if this is a new release.

update-here is a little more info I dug up:

Repressed! Reissue of the complete works by this unusual NYC trio from the early 80s. Featuring Barbara Ess (bass, ukulele, thumb drum, vocals), Verge Piersol (drums, vocals), Gail Vachon (keyboards, ukulele, vocals). This features their debut 7" EP on the illustrious 99 Records label (produced by Glenn Branca, from 1980), plus their Tellus comp. track and their album form Neutral from 1982, Beat It Down (produced by Wharton Tiers). Barbara Ess was the co-editor of Just Another Asshole magazine, an ex-member of the Theoretical Girls and a pretty crucial figure in the whole NY no wave scenario. Their sound wasn't the atonal no wave screech I was desperately hoping for at the time, but more of a toy-instrument-inflected performance-art cache of weirdness.