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Sacred City

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Released
  
1992

Genre
  
Pop rock

Recorded
  
January-May 1992

Label
  
World Domination Records

Producer
  
Barry Andrews, Ian Caple

Sacred City(1992)
  
Naked Apes and Pond Life(2000)

Sacred City, the sixth full-length Shriekback album, looked like the end for the band. Released in 1992 after the failure of 1988's Go Bang!, the album was much more experimental, returning to the original Shriekback sound. Barry Andrews was again joined by founder, Dave Allen, and longtime collaborator Martyn Barker, as well as Karl Hyde. Spin magazine featured it in their "Heavy Rotation" column of staff favourites, describing it as an "evocative concept album exploring the myths of cities around the world". With little commercial success, the band mostly dissolved shortly after the album's release.

Contents

A companion film, also called "Sacred City", was offered in a limited home-video release.

Track listing

  1. "Signs" - 4:18
  2. "Psycho Drift" - 3:54
  3. "The Bastard Sons of Enoch" - 5:05
  4. "(Open up Your) Filthy Heart (To Me)" - 5:05
  5. "Exquisite Corpse" - 4:20
  6. "Below" - 4:35
  7. "Beatles Zebra Crossing?" - 4:04
  8. "Hymn to the Local Gods" - 4:29
  9. "Every Force Evolves a Form" -:5:27
  10. "3 A.M." - 5:05

Personnel

  • Barry Andrews - keyboards, synthesizers, vocals
  • Dave Allen - bass
  • Martyn Barker - drums
  • Ian Caple- Engineer/co producer

    • References

    Sacred City Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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