Sitting Targets

by Peter Hammill

Sitting Targets cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: June 1981
  • Label: Charisma
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 44:24
  • Community rating: 3.83/5 from 7 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Peter Hammill's 'Sitting Targets' placed his intense vocal writing inside tighter, more rhythmically direct arrangements shaped by the early-1980s new wave climate. The album retains the psychological drama of his Van der Graaf Generator work while adopting a sharper studio presentation.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, rhythmic, literary, idiosyncratic, piano, theatrical, progressive, vocal

Tracklist

  1. Breakthrough (3:55)
  2. My Experience (3:14)
  3. Ophelia (3:09)
  4. Empress's Clothes (4:02)
  5. Glue (3:40)
  6. Hesitation (4:05)
  7. Sitting Targets (5:21)
  8. Stranger Still (4:55)
  9. Sign (3:45)
  10. What I Did (3:37)
  11. Central Hotel (4:41)

Credits

  • Guy Evans - drums
  • Morris Pert - percussion
  • David Jackson - saxophone, whistle
  • Phil Harrison - synthesizer

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