Deaf (album)

Deaf
Studio album by
You've Got Foetus on Your Breath
ReleasedSeptember 1981
Recorded1981
StudioLavender Sound, London, England
GenreExperimental
Length46:38
LabelSelf Immolation
ProducerJ. G. Thirlwell
J. G. Thirlwell chronology
Deaf
(1981) 		Custom Built for Capitalism
(1982)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]
Pitchfork Media(6.3/10)[3]

Deaf is the first album by J. G. Thirlwell's You've Got Foetus on Your Breath, released in 1981 on Thirlwell's own Self Immolation Records label.[4][5] Deaf, along with its follow-up Ache, was recorded with an 8-track recorder.[4]

Both releases were limited editions: only 2,000 copies of the LP and 4,000 copies of the CD were produced. The Deaf LP is Self Immolation #WOMB OYBL 1. The CD re-release is Ectopic Ents #ECT ENTS 012.

Thirsty Ear reissued the album as a CD in 1997 in the US.[6]

Track listing

All tracks are written by J. G. Thirlwell

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."New York or Bust"2:00
2."Is That a Line?"7:09
3."Why Can't It Happen to Me?"3:14
4."I Am Surrounded by Incompetence"4:52
5."What Have You Been Doing?"5:32
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."Today I Started Slogging Again"5:48
2."Harold MacMillan"3:35
3."Thank Heaven for Push Button Phones"4:26
4."Flashback"3:37
5."Negative Energy"6:08

The final track on the CD seems to approximate a locked groove, with the same few seconds of music repeated for the final 10 minutes.

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Hinds, Andy. "Deaf". Allmusic. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
  2. ^ Larkin, Colin (27 May 2011). "The Encyclopedia of Popular Music". Omnibus Press – via Google Books.
  3. ^ Schreiber, Ryan. "You've Got Foetus On Your Breath: Deaf". Pitchfork Media. Archived from the original on 23 December 2001. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
  4. ^ a b Guides (Firm), Rough (3 August 2003). "The Rough Guide to Rock". Rough Guides – via Google Books.
  5. ^ "Foetus". Trouser Press. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  6. ^ MTV News Staff. "New Flash: Foetus Re-releases First Two Albums". MTV News.[dead link‍]