The Voice of America
by Cabaret Voltaire
- Type: Album
- Released: July 1980
- Label: Rough Trade
- Country: United Kingdom
- Length: 40:27
- Community rating: 3.5/5 from 2 ratings
Artists on this release: Richard H. Kirk, Haydn Boyes-Weston, Chris Watson, Stephen Mallinder
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Cabaret Voltaire significantly expands their pioneering electronic noise on their second album, blending abrasive industrial textures with heavy, plodding dub rhythms. 'The Voice of America' is an incredibly cold, intensely mechanical, and deeply avant-garde collage of distorted tape loops, generating a profoundly atmospheric, dissonant sense of urban alienation.
Genres
Descriptors: rhythmic, atmospheric, lo-fi, avant-garde, alienation, dissonant
Tracklist
- The Voice of America / Damage Is Done (6:31)
- Partially Submerged (3:55)
- Kneel to the Boss (4:01)
- Premonition (5:08)
- This Is Entertainment (6:01)
- If the Shadows Could March? (0:58)
- Stay Out of It (2:46)
- Obsession (5:19)
- News from Nowhere (2:33)
- Messages Received (3:11)
Credits
- Cabaret Voltaire - primary artist, composed by, recorded by, producer
- Stephen Mallinder - bass, electronic drums [electronic percussion], lead vocals, composed by
- Chris Watson - composed by, electronics, tape
- Richard H. Kirk - composed by, guitar, wind [wind instruments]
- Haydn Boyes-Weston - drums
- Porky - lacquer cut by
- Eddy Gorecki - plated by