Cheap at Half the Price

by Fred Frith

Cheap at Half the Price cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1983
  • Label: Ralph
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Community rating: 3.98/5 from 7 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Constructed almost entirely at home using a primitive 4-track recorder, Frith's solo endeavor is an exceptionally playful, lo-fi deconstruction of pop music. The former Henry Cow guitarist utilizes bizarre tape manipulation, toy instruments, and disjointed vocal performances to create highly eccentric, disjointed pop songs. It serves as a delightfully bizarre, accessible anomaly within his extensive avant-garde catalog.

Genres

Descriptors: lo-fi, political, experimental, avant-garde, DIY, guitars, percussive, genre-blending

Tracklist

  1. Some Clouds Don't
  2. Cap The Knife
  3. Evolution
  4. Too Much, Too Little
  5. The Welcome
  6. Same Old Me
  7. Some Clouds Do
  8. Instant Party
  9. Walking Song
  10. Flying In The Face Of Facts
  11. Heart Bares
  12. Absent Friends
  13. The Great Healer

Credits

  • Leo Kulka - lacquer cut by
  • Eugene Nowacki - typography [type]
  • Bill Laswell - bass
  • Aksak Maboul - handclaps [clapping]
  • Traditional - written-by

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