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Length
  
44:12

God Bless Miss Black America (2002)
  
Terminal (2005)

Release date
  
16 September 2002

Producer
  
Gavin Monaghan

Artist
  
Miss Black America

Label
  
Integrity Records

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Released
  
September 16, 2002 (2002-09-16)

Recorded
  
The Magic Garden, Wolverhampton September 2001 - January 2002

Genres
  
Rock music, Independent music

God Bless Miss Black America is a studio album released on September 16, 2002 (2002-09-16) by alternative rock band Miss Black America on Integrity Records. It was Miss Black America's debut album.

Contents

Production

The album was recorded between September 2001 (2001-09) and January 2002 (2002-01) at The Magic Garden in Wolverhampton. All lyrics were written by Seymour Glass (with the exception of "Scream For Me", which also features vocals from Mike Smith) and all music was written by Miss Black America. It was produced by Gavin Monaghan. It was engineered by Andy Taylor. It was mastered by Ian Shepherd at SRT. Photography for the artwork was produced by Julia Kidd and Daisy Metz.

Personnel

  • Seymour Glass - vocals, additional guitars
  • Mickey Smith - bass, extra vocals on Scream For Me
  • Neil D. Baldwin - drums
  • Gish - guitar
  • Singles

    Five tracks from the album were released as single, they were;

  • Don't Speak My Mind
  • Infinite Chinese Box
  • Talk Hard
  • Miss Black America
  • Human Punk (included on the "Adrenaline Junkie Class-A Mentalist" E.P.)
  • All five were included in two of John Peel's Festive Fiftys. "Don't Speak My Mind" and "Human Punk" were included in the 2001 list, placed at number 42 and number 14 respectively, while "Infinite Chinese Box", "Miss Black America" and "Talk Hard" were placed at 45, 11 and 3 respectively in the 2002 list.

    Reception

    The album has been described as a "fast 'n' hard sonic pummelling", and that "much of God Bless sounds like the more mature Manic Street Preachers playing U2's Boy".

    Songs

    1Human Punk2:51
    2Strobe2:40
    3Car Crash For A Soul3:19

    References

    God Bless Miss Black America Wikipedia