The Germ is an album by the California punk band Victim's Family.

[3][4] It was their first to be released on the Alternative Tentacles label, after departing Mordam Records.

[3] The album's cover illustration, titled "Yellow Head," was created by Harvey Stafford.

AllMusic praised the album's break from traditional hardcore, writing that some songs "are closer to the tripped-out indie psychedelia of Screaming Trees or Meat Puppets.

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