Erewhon

by David Thomas / David Thomas and Two Pale Boys

Erewhon cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: January 1996
  • Label: Cooking Vinyl
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 50:04
  • Community rating: 3.63/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: David Thomas

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The Pere Ubu frontman partners with a highly unorthodox 'MIDI-controlled trumpet and guitar' rhythm section. The album blends disjointed, improvised rock noise with Thomas's manic, highly theatrical vocal deliveries and deeply cryptic, observational poetry.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, experimental, theatrical, dissonant, instrumental

Tracklist

  1. Obsession (4:33)
  2. Planet of Fools (2:58)
  3. Nowheresville (3:47)
  4. Fire (6:01)
  5. Lantern (3:21)
  6. Morbid Sky (5:44)
  7. Weird Cornfields (3:52)
  8. Kathleen (8:30)
  9. Highway 61 Revisited (11:13)

Credits

  • David Thomas And Two Pale Boys - primary artist
  • Andy Diagram - trumpet, kalimba [thumb piano], written-by
  • Jim Jones - vocals [additional]
  • Pere Ubu - written-by

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