Ghosts of an Ideal Wife

by Laughing Clowns

Ghosts of an Ideal Wife cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: June 1985
  • Label: Hot Records
  • Country: Australia
  • Length: 37:05
  • Community rating: 3.76/5 from 4 ratings

Artists on this release: Ed Kuepper, Louis Tillett, Louise Elliott, Diane Spence, Glad Reed, Jeffrey Wegener

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The final studio album from Ed Kuepper's prolific post-Saints outfit continues to integrate squalling free-jazz brass with angular guitar lines. 'Ghosts of an Ideal Wife' encapsulates the band's relentlessly uncompromising vision, closing their tenure with complex, rhythmically tense compositions rooted in Australian post-punk lore.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, saxophone, jangly, melodic, experimental, guitars, dissonant, rhythmic

Tracklist

  1. Crystal Clear (4:40)
  2. Diabolic Creature (3:55)
  3. No Words Of Honour (3:31)
  4. Winter's Way (2:43)
  5. Ghost Of An Ideal Wife (4:12)
  6. The Only One That Knows (7:21)
  7. New Bully In The Town (3:52)
  8. It Gets So Sentimental (3:13)
  9. The Flypaper (3:38)

Credits

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