Danger Came Smiling

by Ludus

Danger Came Smiling cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: September 1982
  • Label: New Hormones
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 49:36
  • Community rating: 3.57/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Helmed by vocalist Linder Sterling, this album serves as a radically abstract, entirely improvised document capturing the Manchester group's most confrontational tendencies. The release heavily features discordant saxophone and unconventional vocal techniques, abandoning the structured post-punk of their earlier work. It remains a uniquely abrasive and challenging intersection of punk ethos and free jazz chaos.

Genres

Descriptors: rhythmic, avant-garde, experimental, vocal, theatrical, lo-fi

Tracklist

  1. Foaming At The Bit (3:44)
  2. Howling Comique (1:53)
  3. You Open My Legs Like A Book (3:27)
  4. Flogging Cully (1:33)
  5. Mememoremee (1:38)
  6. Invasion Of Compulsory Sex-Morality (6:55)
  7. I Stabbed At The Sheep (0:41)
  8. Mistresspiece (2:06)
  9. Bloody Chamber (3:14)
  10. Would You Rather Dancing Be? (0:11)
  11. Wonder-Wounded (1:58)
  12. Savasana (1:26)
  13. Bitch Party (3:52)
  14. Modju (1:55)
  15. Palace Of Thieves (8:10)
  16. Redress (0:24)
  17. Crinkum-Crankum (3:28)
  18. Centuries (3:01)

Credits

  • Ludus - primary artist
  • Lee Buick - alto saxophone
  • Mike Pincombe - drums
  • Paul Mahoney - drums
  • Ian Devine - guitar
  • Mike Adcock - piano
  • Graham Revell - soprano saxophone
  • Linder Sterling - voice, artwork

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