In This World

by Cindytalk

In This World cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1988
  • Label: Midnight Music
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:12:00
  • Community rating: 3.79/5 from 4 ratings

Artists on this release: Iain O'Higgins, Derek Birkett, Debbie Wright, Malou, Gordon Sharp

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Gordon Sharp's shifting collective delivered a fractured, deeply unsettling follow-up to their gothic-tinged debut. The album relies on shattered piano lines, industrial noise, and haunting ambient textures, offering an incredibly bleak and avant-garde exploration of urban isolation and despair.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, noisy, experimental, piano, avant-garde, droning, ambient, lo-fi

Tracklist

  1. In This World (7:04)
  2. Janey's Love (3:12)
  3. Gift Of A Knife (3:31)
  4. Playtime (4:46)
  5. The Room Of Delight (1:37)
  6. Touched (4:06)
  7. Circle Of Shit (6:28)
  8. My Sun (1:51)
  9. The Beginning Of Wisdom (6:45)
  10. No Serenade (7:28)
  11. Sight After Sight (6:11)
  12. Angels Or Ghosts (2:43)
  13. Through Water (9:02)
  14. Cherish (1:14)
  15. Homeless (1:27)
  16. Still Whisper (1:27)
  17. In This World... (3:08)

Credits

  • Alex Wright - instruments
  • John Byrne - instruments
  • Kathy Paterson - painting [cover painting]
  • Paget - voice [second]
  • Kathy Acker - featuring [uncredited]
  • Debbie Wright - saxophone, clarinet
  • Ivan Unwin - guitar [second], harmonica [treated]
  • Malou - accordion

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