The Slits released the 1979 debut album Cut, featuring the song “Typical Girls.”
Cut was the first studio album by the English band The Slits. It was produced by Dennis Bovell and recorded after the group’s early punk sound had developed into a more rhythmically adventurous style influenced by reggae and dub.
The album includes “Typical Girls,” “Shoplifting,” “New Town,” and “I Heard It Through the Grapevine.” Its cover, photographed by Pennie Smith, shows the band members covered in mud, emphasizing the group’s refusal to follow conventional expectations of female performers.
Cut is often described as an important post-punk and punk-reggae record rather than a straightforward three-chord punk album. The band’s lineup changed over time, and Ari Up was its best-known vocalist. Listeners sometimes confuse Cut with the work of The Raincoats, another influential all-women British post-punk band, but the two groups were separate and released different debut albums.