Track Listing
1. Wind Up
2. Daddy
3. Watermelon
4. Vulpine
5. Rest
6. Rest Sextet
7. Romanza Per Psychopathica (excerpt)
8. Joint For Mrs Soames
9. Un Danse Pour Dick Et Bob
10. Incident At Cannon Falls
11. Black Bullet Fiesta
12. 3ft Shy From Yesterday
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 1 | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Distributor: | Cargo | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes
Spleen: Rob Ellis.Additional personnel includes: PJ Harvey (vocals); Steve Vaughan (bass); John Parish, Pooka.
Editorial Reviews
3 Stars (out of 5) - ...Spleen sing the poetry of melancholia....The disc sidesteps the bluesy hooks and smooth songmanship of Ellis' day job but boldly swallows less conventional styles without wincing...
Alternative Press (12/01/1996)
...nightmarish cabaret, relentless in its violence and its dark delight as it turns over every slimy rock in the postmodern human psyche....draws brilliantly on Kurt Weill, Schoenberg, free jazz, and lounge music...
Option (11/01/1996)
...the musical accompaniment to a film that was never made....owes a huge debt to Scott Walker's `Tilt,' in the sense that it, too, gets under your skin and then refuses to let you relax until you're as tired, paranoid and possibly as crazy as the man who wrote it...
NME (08/03/1996)
3 Stars (out of 5) - ...Calling up an experimental tradition largely absent in the '90s, Ellis splices electro-squiggles to hectic freeform rumbles....Ellis slashes across this lowlife canvas with aggressive precision, always challenging as he minces genres.
Q (09/01/1996)
...There is no film called `Spleen.' Of course not....no band called `Spleen.' Don't be so naive. This is the soundtrack to a state of mind....a hilarious account of one man's slide into madness....Confused? Me too. Great, innit?...
Melody Maker (08/03/1996)
3 Stars (out of 5) - ...Calling up an experimental tradition largely absent in the '90s, Ellis splices electro-squiggles to hectic freeform rumbles....Ellis slashes across this lowlife canvas with aggressive precision, always challenging as he minces genres. Melody Maker (8/3/96, p.49) - ...There is no film called `Spleen.' Of course not....no band called `Spleen.' Don't be so naive. This is the soundtrack to a state of mind....a hilarious account of one man's slide into madness....Confused? Me too. Great, innit?...NME (8/3/96, p.47) - ...the musical accompaniment to a film that was never made....owes a huge debt to Scott Walker's `Tilt,' in the sense that it, too, gets under your skin and then refuses to let you relax until you're as tired, paranoid and possibly as crazy as the man who wrote it...Option (11-12/96, p.131) - ...nightmarish cabaret, relentless in its violence and its dark delight as it turns over every slimy rock in the postmodern human psyche....draws brilliantly on Kurt Weill, Schoenberg, free jazz, and lounge music...Alternative Press (12/96, p.90) - 3 Stars (out of 5) - ...Spleen sing the poetry of melancholia....The disc sidesteps the bluesy hooks and smooth songmanship of Ellis' day job but boldly swallows less conventional styles without wincing...
Q (09/01/1996)
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