The Visitation

by Chrome

The Visitation cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1976
  • Label: Siren
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 38:27
  • Community rating: 3.33/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: cover, Gary Spain

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The raw, independently released debut of the San Francisco experimental outfit, created before the arrival of key collaborator Helios Creed. The record offers a dense, lo-fi collage of abrasive acid rock, sci-fi sound effects, and droning synthesizers. It laid the conceptual groundwork for the group's subsequent transition into pioneering industrial and post-punk territories.

Genres

Descriptors: lo-fi, space, melodic, avant-garde

Tracklist

  1. How Many Years Too Soon (5:20)
  2. Raider (3:55)
  3. Return To Zanzibar (3:51)
  4. Caroline (3:53)
  5. Riding You (4:58)
  6. Kinky Lover (3:31)
  7. Sun Control (3:14)
  8. My Time To Live (4:18)
  9. Memory Cords Over The Bay (5:27)

Credits

  • Chrome - primary artist
  • John Lambdin - arranged by, songwriter [all songs written by], backing vocals [background vocals], bass, lead guitar [lead guitars], mandolin, strings [string ensemble], synthesizer, violin [electric violin]
  • Michael Lowe - arranged by, songwriter [all songs written by], backing vocals [background vocals], bass, guitar, lead vocals, synthesizer
  • Gary Spain - bass, keyboards, violin [acoustic and electric violin]

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