Half Machine Lip Moves

by Chrome

Half Machine Lip Moves cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1979
  • Label: Siren
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 35:33
  • Community rating: 4.1/5 from 8 ratings

Artists on this release: Helios Creed, Gary Spain

Album Notes & Community Reviews

An absolute milestone of industrial punk and acid-drenched experimentation, Chrome's 'Half Machine Lip Moves' is a profoundly chaotic, heavily distorted assault on the senses. Helios Creed's remarkably raw, screeching guitars collide with bizarre tape manipulation and manic vocal effects, constructing an incredibly lo-fi, surreal, and terrifyingly psychedelic science-fiction dystopia.

Genres

Descriptors: lo-fi, science fiction, industrial, cyberpunk, experimental, avant-garde, electronic, noisy, distorted, dissonant

Tracklist

  1. TV As Eyes (2:16)
  2. Zombie Warfare (Can't Let You Down) (5:47)
  3. March Of The Chrome Police (A Cold Clamey Bombing) (3:36)
  4. You've Been Duplicated (2:37)
  5. Mondo Anthem (3:30)
  6. Half Machine Lip Moves (5:21)
  7. Abstract Nympho (3:34)
  8. Turned Around (1:58)
  9. Zero Time (3:02)
  10. Creature Eternal (1:52)
  11. Critical Mass (2:00)

Credits

  • Chrome - primary artist
  • Gary Spain - bass, guitar, backing vocals, other [glass], music by
  • John L. Cyborg - electronics [data memory]
  • Damon Edge - lead vocals, guitar [machine guitars], organ, synthesizer [buklahs, moogs], percussion [barbecue and industrial electrified], drums, tape [effects], producer, engineer, art direction, photography by [poster], music by, words by, rhythm guitar
  • Helios Creed - lead vocals, rhythm guitar, bass, lead guitar, bells, guitar [bowed], words by, music by, music by, words by
  • Bernie Grundman - mastered by
  • Amy James - photography by [gary and damon], cover [special effects]

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