We Buy a Hammer for Daddy

by Lemon Kittens

We Buy a Hammer for Daddy cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1980
  • Label: United Dairies
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 41:10
  • Community rating: 3.6/5 from 4 ratings

Artists on this release: Karl Blake, Danielle Dax

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Lemon Kittens' 'We Buy a Hammer for Daddy' documents the eccentric duo of Karl Blake and Danielle Dax in a raw early form. The album's unstable rhythms, cartoonish menace, and surreal sound design link the group to both post-punk and the Nurse With Wound-adjacent experimental underground.

Genres

Descriptors: dissonant, avant-garde, experimental, unconventional, lo-fi, minimal, bizarre, theatrical

Tracklist

  1. P.V.S. (1:55)
  2. Small Mercies (2:03)
  3. Coasters (3:48)
  4. Up In Arms (2:34)
  5. The American Cousin (1:50)
  6. Evidence (2:25)
  7. Rome Burning (1:31)
  8. (Afraid Of Being) Bled By Leeches (2:14)
  9. Pain Topics (4:24)
  10. Reversal 2 (2:34)
  11. These Men Of Old England (2:25)
  12. Wrist Job / Once Green And Pleasant Land (2:45)
  13. Lycanthrothene (3:06)
  14. Motet (3:10)
  15. Throat Violence (2:28)
  16. False Alarm (Malicious) (1:58)

Credits

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