Pop Surgery

by John Bender

Pop Surgery cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1983
  • Label: Record Sluts
  • Country: United States
  • Community rating: 3.43/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Operating deeply within the American DIY cassette and independent label network, John Bender constructs an intensely alienating take on early electronic music. 'Pop Surgery' utilizes crude analog synthesizers and primitive drum machines to forge a cryptic, mechanical, and starkly minimalist atmosphere. The lo-fi recordings stand as a prized, highly influential artifact of the nascent minimal wave underground.

Genres

Descriptors: lo-fi, minimalistic, experimental, noisy

Tracklist

  1. 54-2 Meat
  2. 65-2 Galacial
  3. 60-1 Thought
  4. 60-2 Mallinder
  5. 60-3 Hand
  6. 60-4 Day
  7. 57-1 Dance
  8. 67-4 Glass
  9. 53-2 Blue
  10. 68-1 Cows
  11. 68-2 Amalgamelon
  12. 68-3 Unrelated

Credits

  • Max Bender - backing vocals [background vocals], keyboards [keyboards solo]

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