More Wealth Than Money

by Normil Hawaiians

More Wealth Than Money cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: January 1983
  • Label: Illuminated
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:12:10
  • Community rating: 4.11/5 from 7 ratings

Artists on this release: Tony Harrison, Klaus Haare

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A sprawling, politically charged double album, the British collective's second full-length delves deep into psychedelic, krautrock-indebted experimentation. The recording heavily utilizes environmental sounds, droning synthesizers, and extended improvisational jams to critique consumerism and Thatcherite policies. It creates a dense, immersive atmosphere that has since garnered immense cult appreciation.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, political, experimental, DIY, dissonant, lo-fi, genre-blending, vocal, acoustic, folk, guitars, communal

Tracklist

  1. Red Harvest (2:47)
  2. British Warm (10:00)
  3. Yellow Rain (4:45)
  4. New Standard (2:34)
  5. An Old Standard (5:00)
  6. Other Ways Of Knowing (9:57)
  7. Words Are Not Enough (1:51)
  8. Return Of Hollow Lands (4:10)
  9. Ha Ha, The Story Of A Sunken Fence (2:41)
  10. Sally IV (8:05)
  11. Left Alone With Her Pipe (10:15)
  12. Travelling West (10:05)

Credits

  • Normil Hawaiians - primary artist, written-by
  • Klaus Haare - cello
  • Guy Smith - performer
  • Mark Tyler - performer
  • Noel Blandon - performer
  • Simon Marchant - performer
  • Cliff McLenehan - written-by
  • Greenfield Leisure - written-by

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