Learning to Cope With Cowardice

by Mark Stewart

Learning to Cope With Cowardice cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: May 1983
  • Label: On-U Sound
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 40:37
  • Community rating: 3.7/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Following the dissolution of The Pop Group, Mark Stewart teamed up with Adrian Sherwood to pioneer an impossibly chaotic, highly political collision of genres. 'Learning to Cope With Cowardice' blends aggressive post-punk vocals, abrasive industrial noise, and found-sound collages over relentlessly heavy, rhythmic dub production, creating a truly avant-garde masterwork.

Genres

Descriptors: avant-garde, rhythmic, noisy, sampling, guitars, political, male-vocals

Tracklist

  1. Learning to Cope with Cowardice (6:12)
  2. Liberty City (5:36)
  3. Blessed Are Those Who Struggle (5:13)
  4. None Dare Call It Conspiracy (5:41)
  5. Don't Ever Lay Down Your Arms (4:58)
  6. The Paranoia of Power (5:37)
  7. To Have the Vision (3:34)
  8. Jerusalem (3:43)

Credits

  • Mark Stewart And The Maffia - primary artist
  • Evar Wellington - bass, featuring [maffia]
  • Eskimo Fox - drums, featuring [maffia]
  • Desmond 'Fatfingers' Coke - featuring [maffia], keyboards
  • Adrian Sherwood - producer
  • Mark Stewart - producer, vocals [uncredited], written-by
  • Wes Brooks - written-by
  • Traditional - written-by
  • William Blake - written-by

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