The Prehensile Tales

by Karl Blake

The Prehensile Tales cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1983
  • Label: Weird and Unusual
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Community rating: 3.58/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Serving as a cornerstone of the UK's weird-punk underground, 'The Prehensile Tales' offers a chaotic blend of angular guitars, abrasive rhythms, and abstract literary lyricism. Karl Blake's eccentric approach laid crucial groundwork for the subsequent noise rock and avant-garde punk movements.

Genres

Descriptors: experimental, avant-garde, lo-fi, satirical, dissonant, atmospheric, industrial, DIY

Tracklist

  1. Baby's In Grey
  2. Switchback
  3. Whistle And Weep
  4. Blast The Human Flower
  5. The Waiting List
  6. No Limits
  7. People With No Shoulders
  8. Dreams Of The Lichen Tester
  9. A Misogyny Of Song
  10. Love So Much Like Violent Death

Credits

  • Karl Blake - primary artist, vocals [voices], performer [all instruments], words by, music by

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