Unsane (album)
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Released | 1991 | |||
Recorded | January 16, 1991 | |||
Studio | Fun City (New York City, New York) | |||
Genre | Noise rock[1] | |||
Length | 36:52 | |||
Label | Matador | |||
Producer | Wharton Tiers, Unsane | |||
Unsane chronology | ||||
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Unsane is the debut album by Unsane, released in 1991 through Matador Records.[2] It is the only studio album by the group to feature founding member Charlie Ondras, who died of a heroin overdose during the 1992 New Music Seminar in New York during the tour supporting the album.[3] The album's cover art, depicting a decapitated corpse on subway tracks, was given to the band from a friend who worked on the investigation for the case.[4]
Death metal band Entombed covered "Vandal-X" on their self-titled compilation album in 1997.
Reception
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Patrick Kennedy from AllMusic called it a brilliant and daring debut that "assaults the senses like the Swans or Foetus before them, but tempers that art-scum priggishness with clear roots in punk and classic rock."[1]
Track listing
[edit]All tracks are written by Unsane
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "Organ Donor" | 2:10 |
2. | "Bath" | 2:54 |
3. | "Maggot" | 3:17 |
4. | "Cracked Up" | 2:57 |
5. | "Slag" | 2:43 |
6. | "Exterminator" | 5:55 |
7. | "Vandal-X" | 2:04 |
8. | "HLL." | 2:31 |
9. | "AZA-2000" | 2:33 |
10. | "Cut" | 2:48 |
11. | "Action Man" | 2:28 |
12. | "White Hand" | 4:26 |
Total length: | 36:52 |
Personnel
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References
[edit]- ^ a b c Kennedy, Patrick. "Unsane Review". AllMusic. Retrieved January 17, 2011.
- ^ Earles, Andrew (2014). Gimme Indie Rock: 500 Essential American Underground Rock Albums 1981-1996. Voyageur Press. p. 346.
- ^ Jones, Brad. "Unsane in the Brain". Unsane Biography, October 1994. Retrieved March 31, 2011.
- ^ Jagernauth, Kevin (2015-10-29). "Exclusive: Have A Religious Experience With Unsane In Clip From Amphetamine Reptile Doc 'The Color Of Noise'". indiewire.com. Indie Wire. Retrieved 2018-02-04.
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: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Larkin, Colin, ed. (2006). "Unsane". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 8 (4th ed.). New York : MUZE : Oxford University Press. p. 353. ISBN 978-0-19-531373-4 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ Hiller, Joachim (December 2022). "Review". Ox-Fanzine (in German). Retrieved 2024-01-06.
- ^ Perry, Andrew (May 1992). "Soundbites". Select. EMAP. p. 73.