Drumming the Beating Heart

by Eyeless in Gaza

Drumming the Beating Heart cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 30 July 1982
  • Label: Cherry Red
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 37:35
  • Community rating: 3.68/5 from 6 ratings

Artists on this release: Martyn Bates, Peter Becker, John A. Rivers

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Straddling the bleakness of early industrial music and the stark intimacy of avant-folk, Eyeless in Gaza crafted a deeply unsettling yet highly emotive post-punk framework. Martyn Bates' impassioned, strained vocal deliveries float over a bed of rudimentary electronics and fractured percussion, creating an atmosphere of overwhelming, claustrophobic anxiety.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, experimental, minimal, lo-fi, leftfield, synthesizers, atmospheric, melodic, folk

Tracklist

  1. Transience Blues (4:30)
  2. Ill-Wind Blows (3:10)
  3. One By One (3:26)
  4. Picture The Day (1:43)
  5. Dreaming At Rain (6:47)
  6. Two (2:25)
  7. Veil Like Calm (1:50)
  8. Throw A Shadow (1:59)
  9. Pencil Sketch (2:21)
  10. At Arms Length (1:59)
  11. Lights Of April (2:20)
  12. Before You Go (5:05)

Credits

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